Clot-Shot Biden on Vaca as Afghan Mayor Says She's Waiting for Taliban to "Come and kill me"

[James_Madison_Lives]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...ban-come-kill/

27-year-old Zarifa Ghafari is the first-ever female mayor of an Afghan city.
She has survived three assassination attempts.
Now she sits and waits for the Taliban to come kill her.

[pcosmar]

Three attempts,,

Not really wanted as Mayor anyway it seems.

oh, wait,,, is this another baby nurse?

[James_Madison_Lives]

Three attempts,,

Not really wanted as Mayor anyway it seems.

oh, wait,,, is this another baby nurse?

Major a*hole detected.

[pcosmar]

Major a*hole detected.

kind of what I was thinking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

The Nayirah testimony was a false testimony given before the United States Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990 by a 15-year-old girl who provided only her first name, Nayirah. The testimony was widely publicized, and was cited numerous times by United States senators and President George H. W. Bush in their rationale to back Kuwait in the Gulf War. In 1992, it was revealed that Nayirah's last name was Al-Ṣabaḥ (Arabic: نيرة الصباح‎) and that she was the daughter of Saud Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. Furthermore, it was revealed that her testimony was organized as part of the Citizens for a Free Kuwait public relations campaign, which was run by the American public relations firm Hill & Knowlton for the Kuwaiti government. Following this, al-Sabah's testimony has come to be regarded as a classic example of modern atrocity propaganda

[enhanced_deficit]

Of every enemy to people's liberty, war might be the worst of them, because it helps build all the other enemies. - James Madison.

JML, do you support continuing US military occupation/war there even after 20 years?

You might be falling for pro forever-wars gwpundit neocons fallacious argument. Pauls Revere has posted informative summary of costs of this war somewhere on this forum couple of days ago. Super powers interventions there of last 40 years for their self-serving agendas have created more homeless, kids without mothers/fathers, women without kids/husbands than any other war in last half century... Iraqi Freedom War might come close though.

Time will tell if this gen of Talibans is really more respectful of rights of the weaker gender and the weak in society or just lip service, their top backer reportedly had sought commitments to be more inclusive from them before supporting them ( in contrast, can't find any old headline suggesting that Carter/Reagan had sought similar commitments about rights of women when they started funding/arming previous crop of Islamic militants/foreign fighters there ).

China hopes Taliban will establish ''open, inclusive'' Islamic govt as committed
16 hours ago

China preparing to recognize Taliban if Kabul falls, says report
4 days ago


"Modernization" Claims

Billions spent ultimately benefited Taliban...
Militants swap AK-47s for made-in-America rifles...
Announce 'amnesty,' urge women to join govt...

katc.com/news/national/taliban-announces-amnesty-urges-women-to-join-government

Taliban announces 'amnesty' and urge women to join government

By: The Associated Press & Scripps National

Aug 17, 2021
A Taliban official has announced a general "amnesty" for all in Afghanistan and urged women to join its government.
After seizing control of the country over the weekend, the Taliban had attempted to portray itself as a more moderate ruling body than it was in the 1990s when they imposed a brutal regime. Many Afghans remain skeptical about the Taliban's intentions.

Older generations remember the Taliban's ultra-conservative Islamic views, which included severe restrictions on women as well as stonings, amputations and public executions before they were ousted by the U.S-led invasion that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Enamullah Samangani, a member of the Taliban's cultural commission, made the comments Tuesday on Afghan state television, which the militants now control.
Samangani said, "the Islamic Emirate (the militant's name for Afghanistan) don't want women to be victims," adding that the structure of the government remains unclear, but he added that "based on experience, there should be a fully Islamic leadership and all sides should join."

Female Anchors Continue to Present on Afghanistan News Channel


Beheshta Arghand, a female television anchor for Tolo News, interviewed a Taliban official on camera Tuesday in the channel’s studio, asking about the situation in Kabul and the Taliban’s house searches in the capital. Tolo News/Screengrab



Reports like above should provide some political cover for Biden also after bad perceptions mgmt or perhaps some bad mgmt of the transition too. But ending 20 years long war (to which many groups may have been addicted to fleece US taxpayers) on advertized schedule was bound to have some issues.

China won't be exterting influence for women's rights alone, main drivers for China's support would be their own strategic interests (Belt n Road/ETIM etc) not surprisingly:

Chinese envoy urges Taliban to live up to its counter-terrorism commitments
CTGN
1 hour ago

And China's definitions of such commitments might be different from those of other nations.

We'll have to wait and see. But restarting US military occupation and training of corrupt "Afghan Forces" in forseeable decades looks highly improbable.

As for above mayor's claimed statement, quick news search did not show reports of reprisals in Kabul. But it's very early and time will tell how true are claims of 'amnesty'. Did come across a claim of targetting in google news :

Taliban were ‘catching and killing us’: Afghan intel officer who fled to Delhi on last flight from Kabul
The National Directorate of Security (NDS) officer said that the Taliban had sent them notices, asking to ‘revolt the government or die’.
AUG 17, 2021
hindustantimes.com/world-news/afghan-intel-officer-fled-to-delhi-on-last-flight-from-kabul-to-escape-taliban-101629139600183.html

This could be linked commitments China had saught if claims are factual and might not indicate widespread reprisals or targetting of women:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...=1#post7053282

China's State Newspaper
Crusade against July 14 terrorists to punish whoever attacks Chinese
globaltimes.cn

Aug 13, 2021 — The Dasu terrorist attack that killed nine Chinese nationals... The NDS is the largest intelligence agency in Afghanistan.
Nine Chinese nationals were killed in a shuttle bus explosion in ... that India's RAW and Afghan NDS have been involved in the Dasu attack, ...

Whole world will be watching, new regime that will emrge got to be mindful of that too.




Related

Back to Afghanistan!
Its for the women!
(but not the Children)

[phill4paul]

If you wanted victory in Afghanistan you should have trained the women instead of the men and offered $200 per Taliban ball sacks.

[enhanced_deficit]

We should have armed and trained the women.

It would have lead to a better outcome of arming and training the men.

How do you train a people of any gender when there cannot be trust?


Afghan policewoman kills American adviser
globalnews.ca
Dec 24, 2012 — ... a single bullet to the chest, the first such shooting by a woman in a spate of insider attacks by Afghans against their foreign allies.


For years, there likely had been no real training going on except on paper, just a big MIC spendathon camouflaged under false banners of "training 300,000 strong Afghan paper army" while warlords took suitcases of US $$$ aid to buy Villas in Dubai.


Related

Ghani fled with cars and helicopter 'full of cash'
independent.co.uk
1 day ago — Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani reportedly fled the country with four cars and a helicopter full of cash and had to leave some money behind on the tarmac.

[pcosmar]

If you wanted victory in Afghanistan you should have trained the women instead of the men and offered $200 per Taliban ball sacks.

It they wanted a victory,, it would have been a Trade Deal 20 years ago instead of Invading them and making another enemy where there was none.

[enhanced_deficit]

It they wanted a victory,, it would have been a Trade Deal 20 years ago instead of Invading them and making another enemy where there was none.

That's the route China appears to be taking.
If it is confirmed that China's backing of Taliban at highest levels following July 2021 killing of 9 Chinese engineers working on Belt n Road was the catalyst behind lightening fast Taliban advances, that would mean huge ROI for whatever amount they may have invested.