Noam Chomsky blasts Obama: He has no moral center

[Lydia Leftcoast]

171. Oh that old canard

Feminists were warning about the Taliban in the 1990s, but the CIA actually supported them at the time because they were the best organized of the factions fighting for control after the Soviet withdrawal.

An even better time to worry about the women of Afghanistan would have been 1979. The CIA started egging on the most regressive elements of society against the new Marxist government months BEFORE the Soviets were called in. (The American people were lied to and told that the Soviets sent troops in just because they were nasty Soviets who like to send troops into other countries and were using Afghanistan as a stepping stone to conquering Pakistan and gaining a warm-water port, but in fact, they were invited in to suppress the rebels, whose main beef was that the Marxist government wanted to impose women's rights on them.)

So beginning in the Carter administration and throughout the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations, the U.S. actively supported the most regressive elements in Afghanistan just because they were against the Soviets.

"But," you say, "what if Afghanistan had fallen under Soviet domination!"

Yeah, what if? For all their faults, Communist governments have proven to be good at two things: universal secular education and introducing women's rights to male supremacist areas like Central Asia and China.

So spare me your tears for the women of Afghanistan. They wouldn't be in danger if the U.S. hadn't played its Cold War games in their country.

No, leftnyc, I'm a REAL leftist. I'm not held back by MSM mythology and a lack of historical perspective or dazzled by personalities.