At some point it’ll probably stop being “the Taliban” and just “the people who run Afghanistan now.” Who else is there at this point to challenge them? Does it make sense to try to start using soft power to get them to make sensible changes? Idk, but whatever we did there for 20 years clearly failed.
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Ummm… Human rights issues aside, maybe they shouldn’t have done stupid shit like blow up their major tourist attractions? I spent a little more than four months in Kandahar back in 2012, don’t get me wrong, it’s a beautiful country. But it’s going to take a lot more than “we want tourists” for tourists to flock there.
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Why would anyone voluntarily want to go to that hellhole?
Afghanistan is trying so hard to pretend like its just normal country its laughable.
*— Wait, you don’t want to see the world-famous “[place where there were ancient statues that we blew up](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/taliban-destroyed-afghanistans-ancient-buddhas-now-welcoming-tourists-rcna6307)”?? Whyy???*
At some point it’ll probably stop being “the Taliban” and just “the people who run Afghanistan now.” Who else is there at this point to challenge them? Does it make sense to try to start using soft power to get them to make sensible changes? Idk, but whatever we did there for 20 years clearly failed.
Ummm… Human rights issues aside, maybe they shouldn’t have done stupid shit like blow up their major tourist attractions? I spent a little more than four months in Kandahar back in 2012, don’t get me wrong, it’s a beautiful country. But it’s going to take a lot more than “we want tourists” for tourists to flock there.