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‘Despair is settling in’: female suicides on rise in Taliban’s Afghanistan
(www.theguardian.com)
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Not really sure why you keep bashing The Guardian... Have you seen the UK's top most read papers (The Sun and The Daily Mail)?
I'm not bashing the Guardian, and out of widespread publications I would definitely say they are among the best. My criticism is based on their primary and secondary audiences residing in places whose governments' actions have rendered them incapable of assisting Afghanistan or its people. As a side note my first exposure to The Daily Mail was when it was being distributed for free at the airport, and it made me so angry I threw it in the trash with much more force than I realized. Awful racist rag.
I'm still not entirely sure, what your point is. Don't report things already known to be bad? You seem to be enjoying using overly complex sentences, but you don't actually say anything worth typing.
And you seem to enjoy adding unnecessary sentences which contribute nothing but malice. This is your reminder to be nice on our instance.
Sorry for the sentences, it's about as much as I can do to keep from writing a single run-on. My concern is specifically with English-language publishing exclusively about issues specifically in Afganistan only now that they are no longer under English-language occupation and have no wish to have us back in any way. For almost two decades you would only hear about Afganistan if we killed someone there and we paid absolutely no mind to any social problems which existed as a consequence of our occupation unless we could credibly blame them on our enemies. Now that the Taliban run things (which are a group originally empowered and radicalized by the US) now we need to pay attention to the social problems when they want nothing to do with us because of literal centuries of bad behavior of specifically the Anglosphere and Russia in their borders. Everything I've heard about Afghanistan is that they want us to leave them alone. I think it's terrible when people face such hopelessness that they feel the need to end their lives, and I'd like to see more reporting on what we can address and less reporting on a part of the world which for very good reason don't want us involved. I hope this situation can be remediated, but I don't trust our institutions not to harm them further, and they trust our institutions even less.
To summarize: you didn't bother to read anything about Afghanistan during the occupation and now blame everyone but yourself. Got it.
I'm really not sure how that is a valid summary of what I wrote. There were plenty of stories about the issues of US occupation of Afghanistan otherwise I wouldn't know about them. What I meant was that these particular stories were pretty much absent other than abstractly from mainstream discourse and publication. There is a long history of Western powers causing destruction in Afghanistan. To name a few examples, I blame the imperialist behavior of the English and Russian governments in the 19th century, the Soviet and US government in the 80's when we were training the Taliban to take their present form to resist Soviet invasion, various western NGOs which shipped weapons to Afghanistan in the guise of providing aide, and I blame the behavior of the American-lead coalition forces whose destruction once again cemented what I understand is the only unifying idea of the various Afghani peoples, which is to resist Western influence in their country. During this period I paid taxes in the United States instead of rebelling, so I am indeed partially to blame for their current state of affairs. For all these reasons I am encouraging people of Western nations, whose governments have done nothing but harm to Afghanistan for centuries despite Afghani objections for the entire period of time, not to support further intervention and therefore destruction in Afghanistan. I would like to see this issue resolved of course but it will have to be through methods which do not involve the West. I also think it's our responsibility to accept refugees from Afghanistan since we caused the issues which they are fleeing.