EO,
your are very well informed about the situation and I fully respect and share your view on Afghanistan.

But let´s be honest with a clear future view:
Due to their strong reference to the pashtums code of priviledge and right system and as well due to the sharia law it will never happen that Taliban will respect women`s rights!

Unthinkable in the way of our western thinking but also never ever in the way like other "liberal islamic countries" do.

If Afghanistan will convert in future into a base from where Talibans will spread attacks (again) to non and to islamic(!) countries will only be depend on how strong and cash-rich western politics will be. And as we saw in the past weeks the game of pressing advantages was opened by the talibans in conferences with western countries.

In my eyes it`s an absolute inhuman shame what is actually happening there and how the world reacts to this. But nobody can stem fast the tide which started decades and centurys before. I allways thought that Churchill was right when he stated that a bad peace is better than a good war. But in the moment I am still asking myself where will be difference for the Afganis when a Taliban goverment will show that a bad peace and a good war will be the same.

I was never really interested to visit Afghanistan but especially Pakistan is still on my list. Talibans recruited in the past a lot of fighters from pakistani pashtums who are a minority in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. It will get existing to see what kind influence in view of safety, economics and attacks in Pakistan will be driven in the future from pakistani pashtums.

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