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What kind of monstrous country would fund and recruit fighters to attack occupying troops from an adversary country? It's an unprecedented breach of international ethics in all cases, but it's especially morally grotesque to do it against a foreign military in Afghanistan.🇺🇸🇷🇺
The very idea of funding domestic fighters to attack a foreign military in their country is so dastardly, so sinister, so out of bounds for how great nations behave that it's hard to imagine the moral outrage permeating the Pentagon and the CIA when they learned of this. 🇷🇺🇺🇸
Don't wonder if this true. All leaks by anonymous CIA officials to NYT are inherently credible (and it's "confirmed" not by evidence but by having the same officials repeat their claims to other papers).
But maybe it's worth asking why the US is in Afghanistan for 20 years?🇷🇺🇺🇸
But maybe it's worth asking why the US is in Afghanistan for 20 years?🇷🇺🇺🇸
Voluntary compliance with civil rights isn't the issue.
Some people will voluntarily do the right thing.
The question is what do you do when people persist in discrimination either privately or at the local level.
Some people will voluntarily do the right thing.
The question is what do you do when people persist in discrimination either privately or at the local level.
When my mother moved to LA in 1960, people refused to sell her family a house because of racially-restrictive covenants.
This was 12 years after Shelley v. Kramer, which held enforcement of these covenants violated the 14th Amend. But *private* compliance was allowed.
This was 12 years after Shelley v. Kramer, which held enforcement of these covenants violated the 14th Amend. But *private* compliance was allowed.
My family had to buy an unencumbered piece of land, and my grandmother vowed to build the nicest house in Manhattan Beach.
It wasn't until 1968 with the passage of the Fair Housing Act, that discrimination in housing was outlawed.
It wasn't until 1968 with the passage of the Fair Housing Act, that discrimination in housing was outlawed.
