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In reply to the discussion: So the latest bombing lunatic is a member of a family from Afghanistan [View all]EX500rider
(10,835 posts)38. "we and our allies did to his homeland?"
You mean take the Taliban out of power?
Or:
In 2001 no girls attended formal schools and there were only one million boys enrolled. By 2012 the World Bank says there were 7.8 million pupils attending school - including about 2.9 million girls.
Life-expectancy had increased from 45 years in 2001 to 63 years.
According to the UN, access to safe drinking water improved from 4.8% of the population to 60.6% by 2011.
Stuff like that, how horrible!
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So the latest bombing lunatic is a member of a family from Afghanistan [View all]
malaise
Sep 2016
OP
Really, so it has nothing to do with the 100,000 plus Afghans we have slaughtered over the last 15
CBGLuthier
Sep 2016
#5
Remember when the Taliban attacked the MSF hospital in Kunduz with their AC-130 gunship?
LeftyMom
Sep 2016
#23
Remember when the Afghan Special Forces had a town overrun and called in a airstrike on it...
EX500rider
Sep 2016
#36
And yet they didn't do this in Russia who also went to war before the USA even thought to go
yeoman6987
Sep 2016
#32
From what I heard on the news earlier, he wasn't the "socially awkward" type at all.
W_HAMILTON
Sep 2016
#34
Don't know - the truth is that institutional racism and 'otherization' is always present
malaise
Sep 2016
#21
Well the loud mufflers (digitized glass packs?) are enough to convict IMHO nt
JanMichael
Sep 2016
#30