It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the …

Arundhati Roy
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It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U.S. marines are actually on a feminist mission. ✨ Arundhati Roy (2016). The End of Imagination, p.240, Haymarket Books
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It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U.S. marines are actually on a feminist mission. ✨ Arundhati Roy (2016). The End of Imagination, p.240, Haymarket Books

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