So, alongside the billions for bombs went hundreds of millions for gender studies in Afghanistan.
According to US government reports, $787 million was spent on gender programs in Afghanistan, but that substantially understates the actual total, since gender goals were folded into practically every undertaking America made in the country.
-Cockburn
According to an USAID observer, the gender ideology included in American aid routinely caused rebellions out in the provinces, directly causing the instability America was supposedly fighting.
-Cockburn
We Placed a Toilet In An Art Museum
Pay Attention, Afghans: This Is Important
Western Cultural Imperialism Rejected
...Cockburn dredges up something so horrible and hilarious that it’s straight out of a Monty Python sketch.
In it, the American occupiers attempt to enlighten a group of Afghan women by showing them Marcel Duchamp’s famous urinal-as-museum-piece, and telling them that it’s important art.
Cockburn says watch to the 31-second point and see the moment when America failed in Afghanistan. -Rod Dreher