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  Wet burka contest, woot woot!
context: Oddly restrained. I thought they'd jump straight to using machine guns. >
  
  If we're going to run this country into the ground, we're going to do it classy-like  –The Taliban, probably
  Edit: fixed spelling >
  
  “Don’t push western values on other countries” 
  You mean human rights? >
  
  Post-colonial theorists in shambles rn. >
  
  When are they not in shambles? >
  
  Yeah but you do love to see women getting beaten and killed for not staying in their homes because “all cultures are equal”. >
  
  Only way they could make a woman wet. >
  
  They don't want them wet. Women are not allowed pleasure >
  
  Kind of counterproductive to use a water cannon on the women if they don't want them wet.
  But hey, maybe this means they've stopped using bullets on them. >
  
  I dunno, you would think on that part of the world water would be more valuable >
  
  They're pretty upset about Iran, the cowards. >
  
  Its insane to me that idiots have the audacity to call the Taliban cowards. They defeated the strongest military in the world, despite them wasting literally TRILLIONs of dollars trying and failing to stop a bunch of men with nothing but heart and ak47s. That's the opposite of cowardice. >
  
  Not sure why people are booing you, the Taliban can be labelled correctly and truthfully as violent, backwards, tyrannical, homophobes, terrorists, mass-murders, extremists etc. but cowardice isn’t exactly a good descriptor for them.
  Not a lot of people in my social group claim to have the bravery and audacity to pick up a weapon and defend their beliefs should they be put in a position where they had to, whatever that belief of value is. >
  
  I am beginning to wonder if the US could have saved the 2 Trillion dollars it WASTED in Afghanistan and effectively countered the Taliban with black market morning-after pills and smuggling women out to free universities. >
  
  Yup - waste of blood and treasure.  Should have spent it at home. >
  
  You did spend it at home. The bullets you bought went abroad. >
  
  Exactly, the taxpayer money spent on the war wasn't shipped to Afghanistan it went right in into the pockets of arms manufacturers and their lobbyist cronies.
  Of course I think what they meant was it should of been spent on things that actually improves the lives of American citizens. >
  
  Oh I know I was just being flippant. >
  
  The taliban didn’t love their mothers apparently. >
  
  This is so freaking sad. My heart goes out to those that believe in positive progress in Afghanistan and are being persecuted. 
  Religion always has been and always will be nothing more than a tool to control. >
  
  Its not religion, its misogyny. >
  
  I don't know...religion seems to be quite the catalyst to misogyny points to history >
  
  I don’t know. I feel like religion is just a very convenient excuse. People will use anything to justify their injustice. Take racism, for example. People invented pseudoscience to justify it, with shit like “they have different brains” and what not. >
  
  At the Taliban Wet T-Shirt Contest, the prizes are rapings and beheadings, not particularly in that order.
  Afghanistan would have been better off under UN/NATO administration. The country has no hope to be anything other than a shithole the next century. >
  
  
  The ANA flat out fled
  
  Fourteen thousand of them laid down their lives trying to defend their country's people from the Taliban. >
  
  21st century, folks. Incredible. >
  
  Because there is nothing scarier to the Talibani than women who are smarter than them. >
  
  1st Taliban wet T-shirt contest and likely the 1st wet T-shirt contest with head scarves. >
  
  It's sad because Afghans had a chance to defeat the Taliban when NATO was there. Perhaps NATO should have formed all-female units since women would have been motivated to fight, but it's too late now. >
  
  As a woman who served in the US armed forces post-9/11, I quite agree. That was a missed opportunity. >
  
  Yep, US loves to invade sovereign countries - too bad you guys are so inept at it >
  
  Well, Afghanistan is now independent, but it appears that the women there don't like it. >
  
  The reason the taliban exist at all is because of US' meddling. Educate yourself before you open your mouth >
  
  The Taliban existed when Russia was supporting the Afghan government. The Taliban is similar to ISIS and Al-Qaeda. The Taliban originated for the same reasons these two groups originated. >
  
  Where are you Muslims ? Where are the huge protests you did against cartoons? >
  
  All the people who died, billions of dollars, and nothing has changed. The British and the Russians couldn’t defeat these people, I don’t know why the Americans thought that they could. >
  
  This is quite a good thing it shows there not willing to just jump right in to killing every one now as a show of force and to make every one do as there told. Its a big step for them as just a year or two ago the Taliban would just rape and murder them all with out question. >
  
  Yehhhh, they're not avoiding killing them because they value their lives. They're not just killing them because its rude to just kill another man's property. >
  
  Not stopping Iranians from butchering women and girls in the streets and hanging the men who defend them. >
  
  Who sold them water cannons? >
  
  Probably Saudi Arabia >
  
  They’ll be gunning them down soon enough >
  
  
  Women have also been banned from working for national and international NGOs, confirmed Abdel Rahman Habib, spokesman for the ministry of economy.
  
  So which NGOs will still be working in Afghanistan tomorrow? >
  
  Usually they'd use real cannons and bullets to stop women