PHILADELPHIA â ???? Mohammad Azimi knew it was risky to take a job at the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, helping translate contracts, pay slips and coupons for Americans. Even the local shopkeepers and taxi drivers knew who he was and where he worked, and could easily relay that information to the Taliban. An interpreter was recently dragged out of his car and beheaded. This spring, after six years, Azimi knew something else: it was time to leave Afghanistan. He arrived in Philadelphia just before what has become a rattling, on-time effort to evacuate thousands of Afghan interpreters … US personnel evacuated from Afghanistan and panicked citizens lined up on Sunday, according to the Associated Press who wanted to flee, at ATMs to withdraw their savings. Afghans are now facing a life that is not under democratic rule, but under the rule of radical Islamic fighters.
The apparent fall of Afghanistan came just three months after the US withdrew its troops from the country after a 20-year war that killed 2,448 US soldiers, 3,846 US military contractors and 66,000 Afghan military and police Land began.
To Afghans and international observers of a certain age, it looks like history repeats itself.
The Taliban â ???? which means that « the students » in Pashto took control of Afghanistan in 1996 after capturing Kabul from various rival groups in the Afghan civil war. They formed a government based on their extreme interpretation of Islamic Sharia law and ruled for five years, then the Taliban regime was overthrown by the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
Taliban fighters at a roadside checkpoint in Afghanistan in 1995.
Afghanistan experts have given insights into the Taliban â ???? then and now – ???? and the role of the United States in the collapse of Afghanistan.
Have the Taliban changed in the past two decades? Sher Jan Ahmadzai, director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, wanted to answer this question in his story about the Taliban from July 2021.
Ahmadzai, who is from Afghanistan, stated: “During the five years of the Taliban’s rule, women were forbidden to work, go to school or leave the house without male relatives. Men had to grow beards and wear a hat or turban. «
» Children started to fly kites and play games. Couples played music at their weddings, and women left their homes to work without fear of being beaten by the Taliban enforcers. «
Trimmen in Kabul, November 2001.
The Taliban’s rhetoric has softened since 2001, Ahmadzai wrote, but he has little evidence found that their extremist beliefs had changed.
« All evidence suggests that the Taliban still believe in restoring their old emirate system, in which an unelected religious leader or emir was the final decision maker », God-given authority.
In the Taliban-controlled parts of Afghanistan, wrote Ahmadzai, the Taliban already have rulers who have asked families to have one girl per family with their fighters get married; said women should not leave home without a male relative; and ordered men to pray and grow beards in mosques. «
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Afghanistan after the US withdrawal: The Taliban speak more moderately, but their extremist rule has not developed further in 20 years
Fox News host Maria Bartiromo confronted Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn (TN) on Sunday for failing to prevent a bipartisan infrastructure bill from being passed.
« This government is weak on every front, » she argued. « Whether it’s the out-of-control spending or improper priorities, this is a weak president. It’s a government that is not focused. They don’t prioritize what the American people want to see. »
« You’re right! The list goes on, ”said Bartiromo. “But Senator, with all due respect, if they’re so weak, why are they beating you? OK? The bottom line is that the Democrats win. And thanks to your colleagues, we’re going to see a big Green New Deal soon. Mitch McConnell recently praised President Biden for working bipartisan! »
« What’s wrong with the Republicans? » She continued. « They didn’t make anything of it, except to say, yes, we worked with our colleagues on the left. But they don’t say that – we worked with our colleagues on the right. They don’t care. » whether you are there or not! »
Bartiromo added, « So if they are so weak why are they beating you and your co-workers? »
« We’re pushing that back, » replied Blackburn. « The good thing is that the American people are starting to push back with us. »
On Saturday, MP Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) defended the January 6th Capitol rioters detained by the FBI, claiming they were treated worse than the « terrorists of Gitmo » / p> In a breakfast speech before the Cobb County’s GOP, the controversial legislature – currently banned from Twitter for spreading false information about COVID-19 vaccines – raged for an hour over the New Green Deal, communism (while bluntly stated that President Joe Biden is « absolutely a communist ») before addressing the plight of the insurgents who stormed the nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6, causing the legislature to flee.
At 1:49: At midnight, Greene explained, “The FBI and the Justice Department are (sic) completely out of line. The way they are indicting people who were in the Capitol on January 6th is appalling. Mainly because they ignored the violent terrorists from Antifa and BLM. «
» The way they attacked the people who were there on January 6th is incredible, « she added. « I was there that day, I didn’t like the violence and I kept saying it was wrong and these people were charged and held like political prisoners in Washington DC Federal Prison and other prisons » in that country is wrong. «
» They treat these people worse than the terrorists at Gitmo, « she continued. « They treat these people worse than illegal aliens held in detention centers – and I’ve been to detention centers and I know what they look like. »
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