There is only one major country in the world today holding on against the Taliban: India. Does that make it the last liberal power?
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Or, alternatively, is Hinduism a better basis than liberalism on which to anchor the fight against Taliban barbarism?
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So liberalism gives you Taliban and illiberalism gives you resistance to Taliban?
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I’m saying Hindu nationalism and Taliban represent different strains of illiberalism that are incompatible with each other AND with liberalism.
India’s previous 90s posture on Afghanistan was formed against a backdrop of chaotic coalitionism and Kashmir terror, not ideology.
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I assumed you were kidding 😆. I don’t see how you can attribute the Taliban to a single dominant cause. It’s USSR+ISI+5 US admins + Saudi $ + Deobandi+Wahhabi theology. At best you can say liberalism failed to penetrate it.
Illiberalism vs illiberalism is just Hobbesian though.
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If you are concerned with Taliban barbarism and Western liberalism cannot offer you a standpoint from which to denounce it while Hindu nationalism can, that is an interesting situation
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Akshay is right in the other replies. The posture today is not really distinguishable from the last 60 years. Basic realpolitik shaped primarily by Pakistan and Kashmir. Any lofty positions on Afghanistan itself is just shallow PR.
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The purported ideology of “Hindu Nationalism” is what its detractors assume it to be. OTOH Taliban has stated policies that are implemented in its governance. Something is seriously wrong with the moral vision of those equate their fevered imagination with the reality of Taliban.
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Hindu nationalism actually is far more pluralist, liberal and progressive when compared to corrupt western liberalism which seeks to ban biology, ban the study of classics, break apart families while allying with radical lsIamists.
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