Posted on 07/31/2022 8:50:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Veteran Afghanistan correspondent Lynne O’Donnell says she has never seen the Taliban more brutal or the millions of people the austere fighters again govern more wretched.
“I really never expected to find it as bad and as awful as I did. It’s a very very sad, unhappy, traumatized, depressed place,” she said after revealing she was forced to retract hard-hitting reports on the fundamentalist Islamic group.
“They’re worse,” she said, commenting on the changes in the Taliban since their first time in power more than 20 years ago.
The Australian journalist was speaking during a phone interview after being ejected from Afghanistan after just four days in the capital, Kabul. The account of her experiences there garnered widespread attention after she was visited by Taliban intelligence officers who she says brought her to their headquarters July 19 and demanded she give up her sources for previous reports.
O’Donnell said she was held in a messy office, where the four officers wanted her to apologize for her work from 2021, focusing on reports on members of the Afghan LGBTQ community and on minors being forced into a life of sexual servitude to Taliban members.
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George W. Bush baked this cake. Biden just put the icing on it.
“I really never expected to find it as bad and as awful as I did.
Really???? I never doubted for a minute things were going to get bad.
We use to care! Talk to mash potatoe brains Biden.
It’s just fundamentalist islam being what fundamentalist islam is.
The Taliban understand the Pathan mindset and are enforcing order in a manner that the population understand. The US should shut up and
mind it’s own business
Most alien cultures are simply incompatible with Western values, concepts and customs. As Obama said these people cling to their religion and guns. When Americans finally understand this point, perhaps foreign entanglements and the debilitating conflicts that inevitably follow will cease.
And what did they expect?
Apparently, NBC News is surprised at this.
What’s wrong with Afghanistan?
No drag queen story hour?
How many U.S. hostages are still in Afghanistan?
Under Carter, we got an update every day until the hostages were all free.
Fixed it.
Oh absolutely… Just an entirely different story and outcome !
Taliban rule in Afghanistan:
anyone who thought you could enable Afghanistan to be a democracy capable of defending itself in one generation (or even less) was naive.
Hence, George W. Bush and the neocons showed they are untrustworthy of national leadership, and brother Jeb not ready in 2016.
A democracy capable of defending itself is a subtle thing. It requires, simultaneously, a high valuation of each human person, AND a willingness to fight and win.
The democracy project has not taken root, even today, in much of the world. Even in countries where democracy has been established, it is constantly under threat of socialists of various sorts, who do not respect the rule of law, and who want to redistribute the wealth to their benefit.
Furthermore, many among the elite, perhaps most, think they can control the mob to their benefit and, so, ally themselves with, and finance the mob. Socialism morphs into fascism, and freedom into tyranny.
We should consider ourselves in a two-front war: against the domestic terrorists and against the foreign terrorists. Our priority must be to win the domestic war, and we have to be careful about when and where to fight the foreign war.
Probably for his new 8yo bride.
Scumbags that Dems let rise again!
The women of the Middle East, thank a demoRAT!!!
“A democracy capable of defending itself is a subtle thing.”
A republic is even more difficult to create and defend. Very few people have the education, values and the will to do it.
The people of the United States did at one time. It looks more and more likely that has been lost. Permanently.
May I have some more cash from the Treasury?
With the help of the billions worth of munitions that biden left for them, and secure in the knowledge that the decrepit old fool, who is not Trump, will allow the taliban to expand its reign of terror.
Kinda funny watching an Afgan with ice-cream cones. It wasn’t long ago flying kites, eating ice-cream & even seeing exposed goat genitalia were considered Haram only because their mohammad had no word on it!
Too bad women still need to be covered because males can’t control their sexual urges in public.
Read the whole article, it is hilarious. This woman spent years in Afghanistan and still has zero insight into the Pathan culture and social order. As with many so called western elites they truly believe the whole world must become Castro Street.
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