Terrorism is pretty culturally entrenched there, as well. Didn't stop the US from deciding they had the moral authority to invade a country and depose a regime there. Of course, the US is also more than happy to use its own forms of violence to get what it wants from the world, and it's really no different from terrorism when you boil it down.
Your argument sounds about exactly like the arguments made against legalizing gay marriage in the US, and the arguments for a Christian nation here. And while we're at it, the arguments made against abolitionism and women's suffrage and strengthening rape laws and protections for women. Glad it helps you sleep better at night.
I'm sure it helps the boys sleep better at night, as well. Or perhaps the fact that they're the only ones in this whole clusterfuck who aren't arrogant self-serving hypocrites helps them sleep better at night. I sure hope so. They haven't got much else. Unlike the warlords committing these crimes and the foreigners condoning them for their own selfish purposes.
I don't know if this diatribe is directed at me or Amadan, but since it came immediately after my post, I'll continue on the presumption it is meant for me.
My argument has nothing to do with arguments with legalizing gay marriage, arguments for establishing a Christian nation, arguments against abolitionism, women's suffrage, strenghening rape laws, or whether or not
Fear the Walking Dead is a total waste of time. Your shrill argument has
nothing to do with anything I wrote in my post.
Once again, if your post was directed at Amadan, he's more than capable of defending his own post.
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Well, my original point was that calling it a cultural difference was just a euphemism for "it's so much more convenient if we just ignore this", and that I thought we as a country should either do better than that or at least own up to the fact that that's how low our standards for policy are instead of trying to pretend we had any moral high ground.
My second point was, if we don't care about the kid who shot those Marines, I don't think we have a right to criticize him for not caring about us. He got raped because we didn't care enough, some Marines got shot because he didn't care enough. No amount of handwringing makes the US the innocent victim here.
But y'all didn't like those points, so I watered it down for you into just saying (albeit with some strong language) that I do not like the situation, since apparently any other opinion is unsupportable. As y'all said, you can't always get everything you want out of a situation.
My point was never the U.S. is in any way "innocent." You seem to be unable to come up with any real suggestion of what the U.S. can DO to stop
bacha bazi in Afghanistan. We've been there over a damned decade and haven't stopped it when the American military was engaged in combat. What exactly do you think the U.S. can
do with one foot out the door?
Eventually, if you keep clarifying and expanding on your original over-the-top post, you may even get around to declaring the pricks the kid
should have blown away were the assholes who were raping his.
