Afghan girls denied school

[ArabellaScott]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-59565558

Heartbreaking article.

'acting Deputy Education Minister Abdul Hakim Hemat confirmed that girls would not be allowed to attend secondary school until a new education policy was approved in the new year.'

to all the women and girls of Afghanistan.

The UN reported today on the situation for women and girls which is worse than imagined

Why is this a surprise to anyone? Hell mend Biden and his decision to took out of the country. He would have know this by he isn’t a friend to the female is he.

Incredibly in awe of the women secretly working to keep girls' education going in private homes while this shitshow rages on.

At the end of the day it's not the US' job to make sure girls in Afghanistan are allowed to go to school. Are you prepared to fight the Taliban to ensure they can, or would you send your children to do likewise? Or just happy to sacrifice other people's?

I have family who were stationed out there - going way back (in the us military). Why were they there in the first place - why did they leave so swiftly when the knew what would happen?

No, they aren’t the worlds police - but they certainly act like they are when it suits them.

They were there to fight isis following 9-11. And stayed to bring "peace and democracy ". More fool them.

The withdrawal was chaos, no question. But they were doing very little good because they were, at the end of the day, an invading force and the Taliban has a lot of support.

They have been fighting the Taliban for ages though.

20 years. And they couldn't beat them.

Afghanistan has such a long history of being used by other powers, 9/11 is only the most recent excuse for the US to wade in. The latest wave of battles, wars and attacks has been ongoing since 1970s. Soviet/Afghan war was US backed Mujahideen vs Afganistan. I mean, the UK were in all that, too. Proxy battles in the cold war killed a sizeable proportion of the country's population.

In the 19th c Afghanistan was used as a buffer between British India and Russia. It's a country that has been used, brutalised, punished, sanctioned, starved and supported alternately by larger more powerful countries for centuries, really. A very complicated history and situation.

Bottom line is it's a strategically useful country. And women and children suffer.

Not surprised. The Taliban impose an extremely patriarchal culture.
The US lost the Afghan war despite their public posturing otherwise, so withdrawal was inevitable. At the height of the US occupation, over half the country was still under Taliban rule population wise and some 3/4ths territory wise. The withdrawal had been planned since Obama announced it, because a lost war is simply burning trillions of dollars a year and being vilified as neoimperialists for their troubles and killed young men and women of the US armed forces.

@SuperLoudPoppingAction

Incredibly in awe of the women secretly working to keep girls' education going in private homes while this shitshow rages on.

If theres anything women can do to support this I suggest we share it face to face and by DM, not posting openly; don't post anything that could get a woman killed.