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.
On a more macro level, there are different types of people in the Taliban: the higher-ups are geanerally more stability-oriented (see public statements on women and religious minorities), while more ideologically hardcore rank and file could simultaneously perpetrate wanton acts of sectarian or gender-based violence