What if the Afghan army had been all female? Would that have been interesting?

[brewens]

Those Taliban fighters would have probably stayed in their huts.

[cornball 24]

1. OMG! I was just going to post that the Afghani women should start a military response.

The Afghani men obviously don't stand up for them! They would receive support from around the world.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. The Afghan Forces had more casualties in a year than the U.S. did in 20.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Okay wait, so arming women so they can protect themselves is okay now?

[madville]

8. The scenario makes a good case for individual firearms ownership

If you can't rely on your military or police to protect you then you're on your own. I doubt civilian ownership of firearms was even allowed there though.

[meadowlander]

9. In a failed state where they are at daily imminent risk of kidnap, enslavement and rape

and no hope of police intervention?

Is that what you're actually comparing to the issue of women in America stockpiling AK-47s in case black people walk past their suburban driveway?

Really?

[Scrivener7]

13. Yep. That's exactly what they're comparing it to. And I bet they think it's a real gotcha.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

15. I mean, with with one in five women experiencing some kind of sexual assault, don't we

want our women protected?

[meadowlander]

16. They are. By the rule of law. Which doesn't exist in Afghanistan.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. Men keep raping tho

[LiberalFighter]

4. The women would had been more willing to fight than the men in the Afghan military.

[hlthe2b]

5. While it is undoubtedly the case the women have the most at stake, I'm not sure you can turn

culturally indoctrinated (through centuries) women into the equivalent of Israeli women soldiers (or those in our own military) overnight. Could they fight? Absolutely. Could they find release from their lifetime indoctrination to initiate a viable overthrow of the Taliban and kill those who have held them helpless and hostage throughout their lives?

That's a tall order. Stockholm Syndrome is not a fallacy.

[Pantagruel]

6. If the Taliban is to be defeated

it's obvious it will have to be from the inside.

[viva la]

7. The women probably would have been tougher.

What was all that training for if the army collapsed in minutes?

[JoanofArgh]

10. They would have routed the goddamn Taliban.

[texasfiddler]

11. The Kurdish women are tough soldiers.

The abandonment of the Kurd's by the TFG had more to do with his kissing up to Putin and Erdogan for personal financial gain than any long term interests of the U.S. or the region in general. Bottom line, female Kurdish fighters are very formidable.

[sanatanadharma]

12. I heard Margaret Mead (anthropologist) speak about women fighting

In about 1973 she spoke at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
She spoke of the long history of men fighting wars within the polite guidelines of chivalry, rules of engagement, etc.
She suggested that if women were responsible for defense and war, wars would be more violent and brutal and shorter due to the fierce nurture nature of mothering.

[ansible]

14. There has never been a large matriarchal civilization in human history

Sorry, but biological differences can't be ignored.