Our side of the great divide has been awash in tittering glee about the “fall” of Afghanistan. Some will argue that it didn’t fall, so much as returned to its natural state with the rulers the people want. Others will argue that it did fall, because the Taliban took the country by force, as opposed to a vote. As with all things in politics, especially in that part of the world, to try to distill it down to a single talking point is to miss a lot of important nuance. It would serve us well to remember that the enemy of our enemy isn’t always our friend. They may have certain strategic goals in common with us, but everything else is wrong and they still hate us.
Getting out of Afghanistan is an example. Obviously, the Taliban wanted the U.S. out of their country. The irony of the fact that the very same U.S. helped them rise to power is probably not lost on them. Any decent Southerner wanted the U.S. out of Afghanistan for a whole host of reasons, our young men being mutilated and killed for no discernible reason being chief among them. Agreeing with the Taliban that U.S. troops in Afghanistan is a bad idea does not mean we should call them friends, allies, or think they have our best interests at heart.
When discussions on immigration come up, we point at Muslim migrants and their compulsive violence, anti-Western attitudes and penchant for crime as reasons they should not be imported en masse to small town America. We do not believe in magic dirt theory and know that is their behavior and attitude in their homelands, too. If we do not applaud this behavior here in America, we should not applaud the behavior in their country, either. This is not to say we should seek to change them, but accepting their nature does not require supporting it or cheering for it.
To say feminism has gone entirely too far in the West is an understatement of epic proportions. However, rejecting feminist lunacy should not mean embracing rape and the enslavement of women. As God fearing Christian men, we love our women. We protect them and cherish them. To praise the Taliban for kidnapping girls and forcing them to be broodmares for strangers is beneath civilized people.
To run down the entire list of talking points being bandied about right now would be exhaustive and would belabor the point. To cheer for the Taliban because they oppose insidious modernity and oppose a common enemy is to accept a false dichotomy. It is entirely possible for an adult to dislike both sides of a particular argument and want nothing to do with either one. A civilized person can see two homeless people fighting in a Walmart parking lot and cheer for neither. More relevantly, it is considered common knowledge that both Republicans and Democrats are bad and the majority of us would prefer a third option. This is no different.
Rather than glossing over the savagery of the Taliban because they fought against forces controlled by people we don’t like, we should lament that good Southerners were dragged into that fight, some to never return home and others to return home broken from a war that was not for them or their people. We should, rather than look to the Taliban as heroes, see what lessons we can learn from their conflict while praying for the safety of our people and a vast distance from their people. We are not required to and should not pick a side in this, as neither one is particularly good, and neither one cares for the fate of our people.
Or it could be that I simply don’t believe these conveniently lurid tales of beastly behavior toward innocent women in Afghanistan cooked up by the Western press. Perhaps I remember similar tales about our wartime enemies dating back to the Spanish-American War, to the First World War, or even to Desert Storm (remember the Kuwaiti incubators?) that all turned out to be nonsense. Or perhaps I wonder: If I know that the press lies about me constantly, why would I trust that they tell the truth about their other enemies?
Is this unreasonable?
You’re not the intended target audience. Every nihilist ‘always online’ fringetard celebrates even the fake stories conjured by the media and imbues them into his own personal e-persona. Six months ago it was Iran or China, now they’re all fawning over the Taliban. Completely detached and manufactured bugman marvel superhero / fantasy football discussion, delivered to a more niche audience.
Well said.
Good take.
It’s not our game, and we should encourage our people to not play these globalist games anymore. Focus our eyes forward, towards our people. Our riches , our political capital should focus on us, what’s in our best advantage.
Who knows what the truth is? We have zero media that are not liars, we have zero intelligence, we have zero anything. How can we make any informed decisions regarding this or anything else? The CIA has been in Afghanistan since the Cold War, we funded ISIS and God knows who else, we import their herion to sell to our children and that is just for starters. No, I don’t believe the stories about the Taliban, because why would I? I’ve been lied to about everything my entire life by everyone.
I celebrate the US defeat there for the same reason I pray for its collapse here. We are the great Satan, and I admire anyone who kills these monsters for their people to be free of them, regardless of whether they like me or not. I also do not feel sympathy for anyone who dies while in someone else’s home murdering their people, Southern or otherwise. As far as the truth of why we were there or why we left nobody knows, we are blind and ignorant children who get all of our opinions from paid liars.