@bluewanda
So we just leave those poor girls to a lifetime of rape and abuse? Wow, some really cold responses on this thread.
The west are not the international police.
This is a problem for the UN not one individual army.
There is very little US troops could do to prevent it. Unfortunately in parts of the world this is an accepted culture and western intervention does nothing more than worsen Middle Eastern-western relations.
America has its own problems to sort - police violence, gun control, endemic racism, poverty etc. The money used for military presence should be put to its own people before another country’s.
It sounds brutal but so is the way of the world. Afghanistan is a very different place culturally than it was 20/30 years ago (as is everywhere) though progress is slow, traditions like child marriage are becoming more and more taboo, it is their responsibility and their right to develop culturally at their own pace.
Western countries cannot inflict their ideals on cultures across the world just because we do not agree with it. That has happened before and we are dragging children’s remains out of the ground in Saskatchewan and other BC areas, thousands remain displaced generations later due to western intervention - see the Muslims in Pakistan who fled the pogroms in India.
We are not an unproblematic power force, we have our own issues which need resolving. Biden, and his troops, have done enough. It’s time to come home.