07-07-2021, 10:51 AM
As a totalitarian movement, much like Commies and fascists, the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan will be a humanitarian crisis. Watch for incoming... refugees. I see no reason to believe that the "new" Taliban will be any more pleasant than the "old" Taliban.
Why couldn't the superpowers of the time (the USA and the Soviet Union) have left Afghanistan alone?
Why couldn't the superpowers of the time (the USA and the Soviet Union) have left Afghanistan alone?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.