It's heartbreaking to see what happens in Afghanistan now. It doesn't help the people there now to argue who was right, but I do wish we'd start listening more to those that warned about this & less on those that always support war even though it rarely achieves peace & democracy
NGOs, humanitarian orgs & women activists often warn "don't start this war", "don't sell weapons to them", "the military wont solve this" but are ignored or dismissed as naive. But even after when they often are proved right, most continue to ignore or dismiss their voices.
It's infuriating that we systematically dismiss work such as supporting NGOs, building democratic institutions as "soft" when in reality it's military intervention, military spending & warfare that over and over fails and is a naive & irresponsible way to solve problems.
We can't change the past but we have to start learning from it. Imagine if we instead spent the last 20 years focusing on & funding women's organisations, human rights organisations, democracy building efforts in Afghanistan with the same amount of $ that was poured into the war?
I get so mad when I think about how politicians & media continuously ignore people who actually have solutions to problems because it's not seen as sexy to advocate for say long-term development projects as simply saying "more bombs", EVEN THOUGH WE ALL KNOW MORE BOMBS NEVER WORK
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