freediver wrote on Sep 3
rd, 2019 at 6:38pm:
The thing about the Taliban treating women no worse than the Saudis, is that just you presenting the facts?
I certainly did present some facts - the guardian system, the near-complete isolation of women from the outside world, the fact that the vast majority are unemployed because of the restrictions applied to them. I also mentioned the women being tortured for speaking out against human rights abuses. And I may also have mentioned their genocide in Yemen.
None of these you dispute of course, because it is common knowledge. Nothing I said about Saudi Arabia is transparent bullshit like your claim about little pre-schoolers being shot in the back of the head for reading the wrong stuff.
But please FD, please keep lecturing me about "presenting the facts" - you have so much credibility on the subject now.
Quote:Why are you so eager to talk up the Taliban and talk down the Saudi administration? Is it because the Saudis decline to kill Americans at every opportunity?
Its not about talking one up, its about putting them both in their rightful place at the very bottom of the moral ladder. The taliban are scum, as are the Saudi regime. Personally I think they are as bad as each other, and its spineless apologism to say one is better than the other - in terms of their treatment of women. Not to mention a massive insult to Saudi women.
Also, Saudis don't kill Americans at every opportunity because the Americans are bending over to them and not invading their country - selling them genocide weapons and fueling their warplanes en-route to bomb schools and hospitals. Interestingly enough, the taliban weren't "killing Americans at every opportunity" before they were invaded either. On the contrary, they were sending emisaries to them to beg them to build gas pipelines in their country and wanting trade deals and diplomatic recognition.