Sex starved afghans?

[GILBERINO]

Well the struggle to end repression is going well in Afghanistan:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/820420...

We seem to have got rid of one bunch of loonies who came to power by force of arms. Then replaced them with a bunch of loonies that some people are allowed to vote for...

[Muntu]

I think she would struggle to get food through that facemask anyway

[Lost soul]

Karzi should listen to the west , if it were not for us he would have been hanging upside down from a lamp post long ago

[Countdown]

The problem is Karzai is not strong enough to "listen to the west". He is caught between a rock and a hard place - either he increases his support via laws such as this and pleases the locals, or he tries to implement western-style common sense and ends up with even less support than he has.

The war is pointless - we are not going to get a stable pro-western regime in Afghanistan anytime soon. The best thing we can do is bribe as many of the head honchos as possible, for a long time.

[Flanders.]

Fair play, we need that law here.

[Jasandjules]

Hmm, there are times when I wonder if we actually OUGHT to stay and police another country. If that's the sort of law they feel is necessary then have they moved out of the stone age? Do we owe it to other humans (women) to stay and protect them in places such as this?

[SleeperCell]

Jasandjules said:

Hmm, there are times when I wonder if we actually OUGHT to stay and police another country. If that's the sort of law they feel is necessary then have they moved out of the stone age? Do we owe it to other humans (women) to stay and protect them in places such as this?

The funny thing is that over there they think we should be the ones to change to be more like them.

As much as all those fans of multiculturalism would like us all to live together in harmony, it would could probably work better if there was some sort of exchange set up so that anyone in afgahnistan who wants to live in the west as a westerner or even moderate islamic can come over to the west, meanwhile those more hardcore muslims in the west who seem so upset by our decadance and so on can be sent to afghanistan, where presumably they can live exactly as they think they should.

[zcacogp]

Jasandjules said:

Hmm, there are times when I wonder if we actually OUGHT to stay and police another country. If that's the sort of law they feel is necessary then have they moved out of the stone age? Do we owe it to other humans (women) to stay and protect them in places such as this?

Good Q, and no I don't think we should.

We may have had similarly barbaric periods in our history, but we developed and moved out of them, to the civilisation we have today. They will, in due course, develop similarly (we hope.)

Until then, we shouldn't be attempting to force them to move along the development process more quickly than is natural. Neither should we be allowing such primitive mindsets to take any kind of a hold here in the UK. Anyone who supports such neolithic behaviour here should be invited to leave the UK and go to live in Afghanistan.


Oli.