US Aid to Afghanistan Women Football: MIA Since 2021
Deutsche Welle chronicles the plight of Afghanistan’s women footballers, now 'in limbo' with FIFA games in doubt, dutifully focusing on the Taliban's restrictions. What they gloss over, with characteristic amnesia, is the US-led withdrawal in 2021 that directly surrendered these women—and the entire nation—back to the very fundamentalists they claim to oppose. Billions were spent over two decades,
only for the 'progress' to evaporate in a chaotic exit. The media's selective outrage is palpable. They'll lament the loss of women's football now, but where was the sustained, damning criticism of the policy decisions that guaranteed this outcome? It appears 'women's rights' are a convenient talking point until they require acknowledging the devastating consequences of Western foreign policy. How
many 'empowerment' programs were funded only to be abandoned the moment it became politically inconvenient?