Am I the only one who doesn't see true leadership in this photo?

[lindysalsagal]

Anyone there you'd want to vote for?

[Sneederbunk]

1. Tourists?

[Rustyeye77]

2. Is that Mullah Omar?

[marble falls]

11. If it is, he grew another eyeball.

[BannonsLiver]

20. Mullah Omar has been dead for 8 years.

[Rustyeye77]

24. Gee, thanks so much for telling me.

[BannonsLiver]

25. Asked and answered.

[Bettie]

3. Change their clothing and the hair color on a few of them

and you have a Proud Boys meeting.

[TheBlackAdder]

4. If I were the guy sitting I'd be saying, Dude with the red MAGA cap, point that gun elsewhere. 🤣

[LizBeth]

15. Grabbed my eye too....

[lpbk2713]

5. I see a room full of people who could use a shower.

That is, if they could separate themselves from their rifles long enough.

Ed: How many of them have twelve-year-old "wives"?

[NightWatcher]

6. I bet they didn't smear shit on the walls

[dalton99a]

7. "They have never governed any space. They are not a government."

"They have never governed any space. They are not a government. At least they certainly they weren't then and we don't know what they are now. They have imposed their form of fundamentalism and radical Islamic Sharia on a population, not all of whom believe in that. We do not know how they are going to react to now being in charge. Last time they didn't give a hoot about what the rest of the world thought. They did exactly what they wanted, backed by enough power from Pakistan and certain other quarters of the world ... certainly, women are right to be incredibly scared. Let us not forget that the designation of the Taliban as a terrorist organization still stands, and it's a very big ask to think this is going to be some kind of inclusive government with rights for all."
- Christiane Amanpour

[FakeNoose]

8. The Taliban are like gun-toting Amish people

They're socially backward with little education or cultural awareness, and they have a strict, conservative religion. But unlike the Amish, they're mean fuckers with guns.

[wyn borkins]

9. And the photographer said: "Everyone smile (please)"...(nt)

[Kota]

10. Reminds me of the terrorists that stormed the capital.

[iemanja]

12. What's true leadership?

They won the war. They control the country now. It doesn't matter what we may think of them.

[ansible]

16. Yep, to the victor goes the spoils

[Hortensis]

17. Agree. Doesn't matter. They're the new Afghan government,

and total indifference to and cluelessness about what that picture shows -- after 20 years of thinking we should help make them like us -- is irrelevant. At best.

This is not a picture of them, but of people in an Afghan village. Not men coming in from hard work or battle, is all.

[marble falls]

13. Clean them up a little ...

... and you get this ...

https://i.insider.com/58d03759d349f91e008b5976?width=1200

[dalton99a]

14. +1

[csziggy]

19. That is exactly the photo I had in mind

Still no leader in either picture - just "wanna be"s and sycophants.

[Biophilic]

18. I know it's a bit weird, but I all I can think about is the incongruities of the

men and the picture on the back wall. I'm sort of surprised they left it up for the photo. Just one of life's too weird to not be true. Sometimes I think we really do live in an insane asylum.

[TxGuitar]

23. I recently had a thought.

Thinking of all of the sci-fi shows that have the characters go to alternate universes (like the Star Trek one where Spock had a beard). The alt universes are always bad and evil and are societies that exist for the powerful at the expense of all others. It makes me think we live in one of those alternate universes that the shows visit.

[Biophilic]

28. Hmmm, interesting. It would be nice to think there are other universes where the good and right

prevail and people take care of each other and their communities and don't think evil of others. Hopefully...

[demosincebirth]

21. Probably a little Smelly in there

[SYFROYH]

22. Does anyone know the story of the painting on the back wall?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

26. It has to be a Jon McNaughton. NT

[Leith]

27. Forget leadership

I don't see anybody I'd want to share a sidewalk with.

[lindysalsagal]

29. It appears to be lots of empty heads

at least from the pic.