Taliban kill Afghan Karen for not wearing burqa

Were things any better under occupation and the imposed 'Islamic Republic' (2001-2021) regime?

Consider this, just one regional hospital in one of 34 provinces:

The head nurse at Herat Regional Hospital’s Burn Unit guesses that she’s seen at least a thousand self-immolation cases since she started working here 13 years ago. Almost all of them are young women who’ve been beaten, starved, or forced into abusive marriages they can’t leave without also abandoning their children. But not all women who douse themselves in kerosene and light a match succeed in killing themselves

Nope. it was 20 years of smokeshow/money laundering. It was always a "humanitarian crisis" every minute of the day for 20 years, and a disaster for women and children, every minute of the day.

"Regime change" - it's a racket! War - it's a racket! Almost makes one want to become a leftist...;-)

We were "America First" before it was cool. But without all the police/military-worship and guns and hut hut hut so it never really sold too good.