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Beepersteen t1_j8xa046 wrote

What they actually need is "black ops magic". Nothing would do more for women's rights in Afghanistan than whacking Taliban leaders.

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Gumby621 t1_j8xdrvf wrote

We did that for literally 20 years.... Didn't really turn out so great in the end

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Hadren-Blackwater t1_j8ygb7c wrote

Carpet bombing is an option.

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AtLeastThisIsntImgur t1_j8yyp05 wrote

Maybe women don't like your eyes because you have the cold dead gaze of a man that believes carpet bombing is an option

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hesh582 t1_j8yz8pe wrote

That didn't work either, just ask the Soviets.

History may not repeat, but it rhymes, and I'm sure in 10 years this next generation will be coming up with their own version of "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran" and launching themselves into a ruinous war.

I was really hoping Iraq/Afghanistan would finally put to bed the uniquely US delusion that you can accomplish anything whatsoever with air power alone, but I've been seeing more and more chatter that suggests otherwise. Depressing.

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Destructopoo t1_j8xf00l wrote

Yeah true foreign intervention isn't why the Taliban were able to take a whole country.

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