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Nor can I assure you that the Taliban are not diverting the money we are sending from the intended recipients, which are the poor Afghan people, i would just say, I have n’t seen a starving Taliban fighter on TV, they all seem to be fat, dumb, and happy. – John Sopko	Found on CNN 1 year ago
While I agree, and we all agree Afghanistan faces a dire humanitarian and economic situation, it is critical that our assistance not be diverted by the Taliban, unfortunately, as I sit here today, I can not assure this committee or the American taxpayer we are not currently funding the Taliban. – John Sopko	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Twenty months after the withdrawal, many are in hiding in Afghanistan, trying to escape Taliban retaliation, others have already been arrested or killed. – Visa Delays SIGAR	Found on CNN 1 year ago
While banning girls from school, the Taliban are also arresting champions of education….The Taliban must release him and all those imprisoned for educating children. – Malala Yousafzai	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Obviously nothing’s been rebuilt( because) there’s no money. There’s The Taliban flags around, but apart from The Taliban, everything looks pretty much the same, and at the checkpoints one of the most remarkable things is the The Taliban fighters had zero interest in us. – James Willcox	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I wanted to see how some of my friends are coping now under The Taliban rule, there is also always the curiosity to see how the real situation at hand is, in juxtaposition to what we all see and hear in Western media. – Kristijan Iličić	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The The Taliban regime is a pariah around the globe and desperate for any kind of positive media or positive portrayal of what is a brutal and disastrous reign. – Arash Azizzada	Found on CNN 1 year ago
At best, these travel vloggers who visit Afghanistan are clueless and naive, at worst, they are useful idiots whose opportunism helps whitewash the Taliban’s awful crimes. – Arash Azizzada	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This issue really hurt the collective conscience of the Iranian people, because for many years the Iranian people had suffered, and one of the main sufferings was that half the population was constantly being harassed because of their gender, because of their body, i do believe that both in Iran and in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, hijab is being used as a means of exerting violence and meting out violence against women, bruising and hurting women, and then covering them in a veil to hide all the bruises and the hurt. – Iran Social Media Iranian couple	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, I’ve sat there and heard the representative actually spew anti-American rhetoric as well, i’ve been in that committee room where the representative equates Israel and the United States to Hamas and the Taliban. Absolutely unacceptable for a member of that committee. – Nicole Malliotakis	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
So far, the Taliban’s actions have forced over one million school-aged Afghan girls and young women out of the classroom, with more women out of universities and countless Afghan women out of the workforce. These numbers will only grow as time goes on, worsening the country’s already dire economic and humanitarian crises. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Taliban cannot expect the respect and support of the international community until they respect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all Afghans, including women and girls. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Taliban’s most recent edicts ban women from universities and from working with NGOs, and further the Taliban’s previous measures that closed secondary schools to girls and limit the ability of women and girls to participate in the Afghan society and economy, through these decisions, the Taliban have again shown their disregard for the welfare of the Afghan people. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Given that the administration ceded control of Kabul to the Taliban, it was a very tactically challenging situation. But it was decisions they made -- or in some instances avoided making -- that led to that tactically challenge situation. – Michael McCaul	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Everyone from the The Taliban leadership has zero credibility on this issue, they have made representations about their supposed respect for women and girls. – Heather Barr	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Taliban movement needs a reform, it is slow to come and it is frustrating for everyone involved. But we mustn’t give up. – Torek Farhadi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The younger among the Taliban do not agree with some of these edicts, but they are not comfortable contradicting the elders. – Torek Farhadi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The younger Taliban need to speak up. – Torek Farhadi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The decision by the Taliban, if it is not swiftly reversed, will profoundly harm the Afghan people, the country’s prospects for economic growth and the Taliban’s ambition to improve their relations with the international community. – Mahbouba Seraj	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We did everything the Taliban asked in terms of Islamic dress and they promised that girls could go to school and now they have broken their promise. – Mariam Naheebi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Taliban targeted and killed Danish because he was a journalist and an Indian. That is an international crime. In the absence of rule of law in Afghanistan, the ICC has jurisdiction to investigate and try the perpetrators of Danish’s murder. – Avi Singh	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Taliban is attempting to maintain pressure on ISIS. They're finding it difficult fo do so. – Kenneth McKenzie	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's not a foregone conclusion, in my professional military estimate, that the Taliban automatically win and Kabul falls, or any of those kind of dire predictions, there's a significant military capability in the Afghan government, and we have to see how this plays out. – Mark Milley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There was nothing to indicate with any confidence that the Taliban was any different than it was before in terms of their mentality, their view of women, their role in society. – Anita McBride	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

Nor can I assure you that the Taliban are not diverting the money we are sending from the intended recipients, which are the poor Afghan people, i would just say, I have n’t seen a starving Taliban fighter on TV, they all seem to be fat, dumb, and happy.

– John Sopko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While I agree, and we all agree Afghanistan faces a dire humanitarian and economic situation, it is critical that our assistance not be diverted by the Taliban, unfortunately, as I sit here today, I can not assure this committee or the American taxpayer we are not currently funding the Taliban.

– John Sopko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Twenty months after the withdrawal, many are in hiding in Afghanistan, trying to escape Taliban retaliation, others have already been arrested or killed.

– Visa Delays SIGAR

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While banning girls from school, the Taliban are also arresting champions of education….The Taliban must release him and all those imprisoned for educating children.

– Malala Yousafzai

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Obviously nothing’s been rebuilt( because) there’s no money. There’s The Taliban flags around, but apart from The Taliban, everything looks pretty much the same, and at the checkpoints one of the most remarkable things is the The Taliban fighters had zero interest in us.

– James Willcox

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I wanted to see how some of my friends are coping now under The Taliban rule, there is also always the curiosity to see how the real situation at hand is, in juxtaposition to what we all see and hear in Western media.

– Kristijan Iličić

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The The Taliban regime is a pariah around the globe and desperate for any kind of positive media or positive portrayal of what is a brutal and disastrous reign.

– Arash Azizzada

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At best, these travel vloggers who visit Afghanistan are clueless and naive, at worst, they are useful idiots whose opportunism helps whitewash the Taliban’s awful crimes.

– Arash Azizzada

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This issue really hurt the collective conscience of the Iranian people, because for many years the Iranian people had suffered, and one of the main sufferings was that half the population was constantly being harassed because of their gender, because of their body, i do believe that both in Iran and in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, hijab is being used as a means of exerting violence and meting out violence against women, bruising and hurting women, and then covering them in a veil to hide all the bruises and the hurt.

– Iran Social Media Iranian couple

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, I’ve sat there and heard the representative actually spew anti-American rhetoric as well, i’ve been in that committee room where the representative equates Israel and the United States to Hamas and the Taliban. Absolutely unacceptable for a member of that committee.

– Nicole Malliotakis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

So far, the Taliban’s actions have forced over one million school-aged Afghan girls and young women out of the classroom, with more women out of universities and countless Afghan women out of the workforce. These numbers will only grow as time goes on, worsening the country’s already dire economic and humanitarian crises.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Taliban cannot expect the respect and support of the international community until they respect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all Afghans, including women and girls.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Taliban’s most recent edicts ban women from universities and from working with NGOs, and further the Taliban’s previous measures that closed secondary schools to girls and limit the ability of women and girls to participate in the Afghan society and economy, through these decisions, the Taliban have again shown their disregard for the welfare of the Afghan people.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Given that the administration ceded control of Kabul to the Taliban, it was a very tactically challenging situation. But it was decisions they made -- or in some instances avoided making -- that led to that tactically challenge situation.

– Michael McCaul

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Everyone from the The Taliban leadership has zero credibility on this issue, they have made representations about their supposed respect for women and girls.

– Heather Barr

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Taliban movement needs a reform, it is slow to come and it is frustrating for everyone involved. But we mustn’t give up.

– Torek Farhadi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The younger among the Taliban do not agree with some of these edicts, but they are not comfortable contradicting the elders.

– Torek Farhadi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The younger Taliban need to speak up.

– Torek Farhadi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The decision by the Taliban, if it is not swiftly reversed, will profoundly harm the Afghan people, the country’s prospects for economic growth and the Taliban’s ambition to improve their relations with the international community.

– Mahbouba Seraj

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We did everything the Taliban asked in terms of Islamic dress and they promised that girls could go to school and now they have broken their promise.

– Mariam Naheebi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Taliban targeted and killed Danish because he was a journalist and an Indian. That is an international crime. In the absence of rule of law in Afghanistan, the ICC has jurisdiction to investigate and try the perpetrators of Danish’s murder.

– Avi Singh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Taliban is attempting to maintain pressure on ISIS. They're finding it difficult fo do so.

– Kenneth McKenzie

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's not a foregone conclusion, in my professional military estimate, that the Taliban automatically win and Kabul falls, or any of those kind of dire predictions, there's a significant military capability in the Afghan government, and we have to see how this plays out.

– Mark Milley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There was nothing to indicate with any confidence that the Taliban was any different than it was before in terms of their mentality, their view of women, their role in society.

– Anita McBride

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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