The Partisan Divide on Issues

[pbrower2a]

(08-17-2021, 11:08 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(08-17-2021, 08:10 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Are fascism and racism "family-friendly"?

 

Majdanek extermination camp. Nazi-enslaved Poland during WWII. Crematorium and smoke. Nazi antisemitism was racist at its core, and it certainly destroyed Jewish families.

Come on PB, you should be able to come up with a better reply than this. So, do you think we are seeing the end of the Biden's presidency? I've heard that are about  10,000 American citizens who are trapped behind enemy lines right now. That's pretty serious dude.

The only thing that I trust about the Taliban is its unwillingness to provoke foreign powers such as the USA into intervention. Guerilla activity is already underway in Afghanistan.

I have no desire to assume dark conspiracies until all other explanations (like incompetence) fail. The rapid collapse of a propped-up regime in Afghanistan suggests that people appointed to keep order sold out when the Taliban came knocking. Just think of the last days of the Republic of Vietnam; it could not have failed so quickly without people allegedly loyal to the anti-communist regime playing roles like those of Victor Ippolitovich (I am tempted to call him Hypocrite-ovich) Komarovsky in Doctor Zhivago. Such people have no loyalties except perhaps to immediate family members; they believe nothing. It's the people who have no core beliefs who fall for the vilest fanaticism because they care only for themselves and their self-image. Such people are epidemics of corruption waiting to happen. 

I have kept the Arendt quote active for a long time because it fits much of human nature. Just think of it: Donald Trump was trouble for America because he believed in nothing but himself, much like Victor Ippolitovich Komarovsky in Doctor Zhivago.   

Afghanistan had plenty of quislings waiting for an opportunity, and the Taliban gave them the opportunity -- much like ISIS in Iraq, with many of Satan Hussein's followers finding a cause as totalitarian as Ba'athism. Those quislings will use their NATO-supplied weapons and CIA training on behalf of the Taliban and be well rewarded, at least until the Taliban no longer needs them and of course gives them exactly what they deserve for their treachery.

OK, that literary allusion almost certainly misses you (I warn you -- the novel is a real tear-jerker), but shaky and seedy social orders foster people who learn how to play both sides of ideological warfare in the event that one or the other prevails... to do the dirty work against the other side. Komarovsky would have done much the same against the Bolsheviks on behalf of the old aristocracy had the Whites prevailed instead of the Reds in Russia. The regional commanders surrendered quickly after secreting funds into secret bank accounts abroad to support opulent lifestyles abroad once they bribed Taliban officials to let themselves and their families out.   

The Taliban has a reputation for incredible nastiness somewhere between the Nazi SS and the Khmer Rouge.