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tulipsandroses

(5,124 posts)
7. That's the lie they have used to keep us there
Wed Aug 25, 2021, 05:10 PM
Aug 2021

Meanwhile 76% of Afghanistan women live in the rural countryside. They don’t live in major cities like Kabul.

They were not seeing liberation that city folks got. In fact we probably made life more difficult for many of them since a lot of bombing and fighting occurred in the rural areas. Whether you agree with it or not, women were not allowed to work in most instances. But those women lost their husbands, fathers, sons. If they were totally dependent on men to take care of the family.

What happens when many of those men were killed? Some women lost entire families. The folks in the rural areas are dirt poor, some places don’t have safe drinking water. Was Andrea concerned about those women?

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