I’ve been following the Afghan disaster as it unfolds for days. What a waste of lives – 35,000+ on all sides; what a waste of time – 20 years to the day from ‘9/11’.
Most of all I pity the women. In two weeks their lives have devolved from has gone from Freedom to get an education, get a job, dress how they want, marry who they choose, think for themselves to living The Handmaid’s Tale for real. Losing their independence, losing their jobs, having to wear a big cloth bag on their heads whenever they leave the house under ‘male supervision’, hiding their qualifications and burning their Degrees (with limited to zero formal education for girls in future, too), being forced into ‘marriage’ to whichever passing mujahideen takes a fancy to her . . .
Horrific is an understatement.