# Have we morally failed Afghanistan? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 14, 2021, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-we-morally-failed-afghanistan/948636 "2021-08-14T00:47:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 80
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-we-morally-failed-afghanistan/948636/80 "2021-08-16T03:36:18Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Okay, so just so we’re clear, the “woke social justice types” would be, in your view, opposed to “essentially annexing” a country and dealing with a perpetual insurgency in the aftermath, and you somehow think the “woke social justice types” would be… wrong to want to avoid such a thing? They’d be wrong to be opposed to even considering essentially annexing a country in an Afghanistan-like scenario on ideological “But that’s wrooooong” grounds, IMO. Annexing the _whole_ country wouldn’t be feasible and would understandably lead to an insurgency, but a partition or establishing Kabul as something like the [Shanghai International Settlement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_International_Settlement) would be something I’d support if it was an option. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-we-morally-failed-afghanistan/948636)._