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Taliban Parents

How wrong could I be were I to assume most Taliban leaders in Afghanistan have aging parents? Especially mothers, as it is not specifically healthy to be a male in such a violent raped poverished, nutritionally-barren place And Taliban parents might also have kids hungry and thirsty and afraid to give us grandkids, for economic and political starvation reasons. It might occur to healthy energy democratic leaders thinkers and feelers that feeding and restoring therapeutic ecosystems could grow better polycultural Afghanistan wealth outcomes promised by Allah and YHWH alike. Restorative, rather than more extractive, retributive justice could work more WinWin effectively, than continuing bad karma retributive violent goals of assured mutual environmental destruction and inhumane death and dying and terrorizing paranoid children, and other forms of almost incalculable dismay through strategies rooted in punishment and threat and counter-terrorism terror, visiting the sins of fathers upon Yang soldiers and Yin sacred daughters and aging mothers alike. Just an ecopolitical thought to feed the obvious restorative resolution rather than first trying to starve out surviving problems of marginal multigenerationally terrified families and EarthSoul Tribes of nature Nature-spirits sown in TooYang Dominant retributional stress disorders, terror, mental illness, paranoia, sleep deprivation, xenophobia, depression, suicide, rabidity, hate for outsiders, fear of strangers, seething anger about oppressions, repressions, depressions, suppressions, fear of death and dying and the unknown...

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