DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock -
"Afghan Women's Liberation No.2 (or, Won't Somebody Think Of The Women?)"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3298
When the US first set out inflicting two decades of destruction and
misery on Afghanistan the Liberals, true to the old Phil Ochs song,
were never more red, white and blue — and the Liberals' most
appallingly cynical appeals for support for that debacle came from the
"imperial Feminists" who tried to tug our heartstrings with horror
stories about burqas, illicit nail salons, and no HBO.
So, it was no surprise when America's Imperial Feminists picked up
where they left off, joining the chorus of bitching, pissing, moaning
and sour-graping about their being run out of Afghanistan, reviving
the tired old bromides about women's rights and how the US "left women
behind" when it dragged its bloody ass out of the place after twenty
years in the Graveyard Of Empires.
The most unctous of these was an article in The Atlantic which dragged
out every one of those tired old arguments, hoary old horseshit so old
it's got SCSI ports on the back. What was merely appalling twenty
years ago is absolutely godawful today, considering the current abuse
of working-class women in the US, and in US satellite states like
Saudi Arabia:
One reason that we stayed in Afghanistan so long with nothing to
show for itexcept the safety of women, @CaitlinPacific writes, is that for
all of our sins, our default position is freedom.
—The Atlantic, @theatlantic on
Twitter, 08.19.2021
Says on the author's profile that she traffics in "thought crimes for
all occasions". I wouldn't know about that, but that article of hers
sure is a goddamn crime, I'll tell ya that for free.
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"One reason that we stayed in Afghanistan so long with nothing to show
for it except the safety of women, @CaitlinPacific writes, is that for
all of our sins, our default position is freedom." The Atlantic,
@theatlantic on Twitter, 08.19.2021
https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1428368543058300937
Caitlin Flanagan, @CaitlinPacific on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/CaitlinPacific
"The Week the Left Stopped Caring About Human Rights", Caitlin
Flanagan in The Atlantic, 08.19.2021
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/america-afghanistan-women/619828/
"Afghan Women's Liberation", cartoon by Mike Flugennock, February 2002
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=251
Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock
"Afghan Women's Liberation No.2 (or, Won't Somebody Think Of The Women?)"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3298
When the US first set out inflicting two decades of destruction and
misery on Afghanistan the Liberals, true to the old Phil Ochs song,
were never more red, white and blue — and the Liberals' most
appallingly cynical appeals for support for that debacle came from the
"imperial Feminists" who tried to tug our heartstrings with horror
stories about burqas, illicit nail salons, and no HBO.
So, it was no surprise when America's Imperial Feminists picked up
where they left off, joining the chorus of bitching, pissing, moaning
and sour-graping about their being run out of Afghanistan, reviving
the tired old bromides about women's rights and how the US "left women
behind" when it dragged its bloody ass out of the place after twenty
years in the Graveyard Of Empires.
The most unctous of these was an article in The Atlantic which dragged
out every one of those tired old arguments, hoary old horseshit so old
it's got SCSI ports on the back. What was merely appalling twenty
years ago is absolutely godawful today, considering the current abuse
of working-class women in the US, and in US satellite states like
Saudi Arabia:
One reason that we stayed in Afghanistan so long with nothing to
show for itexcept the safety of women, @CaitlinPacific writes, is that for
all of our sins, our default position is freedom.
—The Atlantic, @theatlantic on
Twitter, 08.19.2021
Says on the author's profile that she traffics in "thought crimes for
all occasions". I wouldn't know about that, but that article of hers
sure is a goddamn crime, I'll tell ya that for free.
10x17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 993kb
----------
"One reason that we stayed in Afghanistan so long with nothing to show
for it except the safety of women, @CaitlinPacific writes, is that for
all of our sins, our default position is freedom." The Atlantic,
@theatlantic on Twitter, 08.19.2021
https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1428368543058300937
Caitlin Flanagan, @CaitlinPacific on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/CaitlinPacific
"The Week the Left Stopped Caring About Human Rights", Caitlin
Flanagan in The Atlantic, 08.19.2021
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/america-afghanistan-women/619828/
"Afghan Women's Liberation", cartoon by Mike Flugennock, February 2002
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=251
Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock
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