Thursday, December 29, 2022

Musty

Okay, sure. But who is going to make them? The United Nations? The people of Afghanistan? A divinity? After all, the situation on the ground in Afghanistan (which people should have seen coming, despite Taliban assurances) can be boiled down to the Taliban structuring their society in the way that they believe that their conceptualization of God wishes it to be structured. And, okay, that's at odds with "Western" understandings of universal human rights and relative gender equality. But it's what works for the Taliban, and they're the ones running the place, because it's not worth it to enough of the populace there to put skin in the game for anyone else to run the place. A state of affairs that the Taliban understand as tacit public approval of their governance.

The various governments that the United States worked to support in Afghanistan all had the basic problem that the Afghan public didn't value them highly enough to stand behind them. And so this is what they have now. The world community can change that, again, but there's little appetite for it. Finger-wagging is unlikely to change that.
 

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