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Originally posted by Lifetime:
Grrr...
That chills me to the bone and makes me sick in the gut at the same time..
I cant imagine myself, or the people I love living under that kind of life. How the heck have we as a free world allowed the Taliban to continue this kind of oppression?
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No vested interests in doing otherwise, until now. The Taliban have been in power for what, 5 years now? And the Northern Alliance, who I believe where in power from 1992 - 1996, or thereabouts, were *no better*, according to comments I have read by the Revolutionary Women. They also have a blatant disregard for human rights, especially if the humans involved happen to be female.
There are awful, sick and disgusting human rights abuses going on all over the world as I type. That is one of the main reasons why I espouse the idea of an international body with teeth, to take us gently towards a different kind of world, where human beings are treated generally with respect, and are given certain basic freedoms. It would be a long process, that goes without saying.
There are huge problems with countries such as America, Britain, Holland, etc etc going into countries unilaterally to try and resolve such problems. The situations are far too complex, and anyway, it can smack a little of old style colonisation if done with a heavy, insensitive hand. For the future, I believe we should move towards forming an international body that works (no, not a world government!) with a view to obtaining peace on this planet of ours, resolving disputes AND human rights abuses in diplomatic and peaceful ways.
I have posted on this many times, and am not going to start arguing about it again! Just to say that ultimately, warring on human rights abusers kills a lot of the people whose rights are being abused, with no guarantee of getting rid of the abusers, or ultimately, of changing anything.
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