http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/hr-mccaster-donald-trump-afghanistan_us_599c6105e4b06a788a2c2026
It's quite reassuring to know that the foreign policy of the most powerful nation on earth is decided by whether women can wear miniskirts or not :/
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The game changing pic in question(from the article):
President Donald Trump was reluctant to send more troops to Afghanistan after years of saying the war was ”wasting our money." So national security adviser H.R. McMaster used a 1972 photo of Afghan women in miniskirts to show the president that the country had once adopted Western values and to convince him to escalate the war, according to The Washington Post.
McMaster reportedly showed Trump a black-and-white snapshot of bare-legged women in Kabul to illustrate that the region might be able to embrace Western ideals again. Miniskirts were replaced by full-body burqas in the mid-1990s, when the Taliban took over Afghanistan, banned Western clothing and rolled back women's rights. The Taliban now controls only parts of the country, but many Afghan women still choose to wear traditional burqas because it makes them feel safer from violence and judgment in a society where gender-based violence is rampant.
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Afghani women in miniskirts isn't alarming. They should be free to dress as they wish. It's that McMaster knew that tactic would sway Trump.
It's quite reassuring to know that the foreign policy of the most powerful nation on earth is decided by whether women can wear miniskirts or not :/
Edit:
The game changing pic in question(from the article):