(September 1, 2021 at 11:16 am)onlinebiker Wrote: The problem is the doublespeak Biden spewed to try to make a total failure look like a victory going off on schedule....
What did you expect as a victory?
If you compare it to the WW2 victory in Europe, after the war there was also a period of denazifying Europeans with anti-nazi film reels and also the introduction of American culture, like movies with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, but in Afghanistan, deislamization was not on the menu.
Soldiers, or whoever was in charge, had to show respect towards the backward ideology that they were fighting against. So they weren't fighting against the ideology but just trying to catch few bad guys which turned into a giant expensive mess that is now over, and Afghanistani people went back to their centuries of patriarchal oppression.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
