the pervasive sentiment on :reddit-logo: is that the Taliban are just wantonly raping and pillaging, but how much of that is reality vs typical :amerikkka: jingoism.
it doesn't make sense to me why the nominal liberators of the imperialist regime would just turn around and destroy the same country that they're liberating. though I don't doubt that it must be happening at some level, surely the incidence of rape and murder is less than that inflicted by actual invaders, right? I just would have to believe that there would be fighting going on from many pockets if such acts were occurring at large scales.
check out what the US military does
My point being, the Taliban are a hyper-reactionary right wing fundamentalist religious group founded on anti-communism and the most misogynistic views possible. They claim to be liberators because they defeated the imperialists; they did, in fact, defeat the imperialists, but that alone does not make their governance good for the people of the country.
Remember that anti-imperialism isn't arguing that every country the US wants to topple is "good"; it just means recognizing that US intervention is never well-intentioned and always makes a situation worse. Iran is a good example: the current Iranian government is repressive and right-wing. It's nowhere near the Taliban, but it is bad for women and workers. In some ways, it is more repressive than the US is to its own citizens. But by understanding the way imperialism operates, we see that the US has neither the interest nor the capacity to improve the conditions of the people of Iran, and that any attempt at intervention would only make their already bad situation much worse.
edit: China is good tho
Libya is the (modern) poster child for this. Whatever one's opinions are on :gaddafi-happy:, the U.S. undeniably decimated that country.