Spork The west wasn't exactly successful at bringing women's rights to Iraq and Afghanistan.
I have been mostly staying out of this discussion since I concluded that it wouldn't go anywhere but I wanted to make a point on this specific argument. The wast never made a serious attempt to impose Western views of women's rights on Afghanistan. Women's rights were better under the Western-backed Afgan government than they are under the Taliban because the majority of Afghans have more liberal views of women's rights than the Taliban do and the Taliban's abominable view of women's rights was used in propaganda to keep the Western public on board with the war, but there was never a serious attempt to shift the view of women's rights of the majority of Afghans towards a western one.
I am not saying I think we would have succeeded if we had made a serious and sincere attempt to do so. What I am saying is that it is not a good example of the point you are making.to site the failure of a project that never existed.
Iraqu is more complicated, and I admit I don't know as much about the women's rights situation there but I have no reason to believe the Western occupation ever made a sincere effort to westernize the view of women's rights in that conflict either. Feel free to correct me if you can find one.
curious By giving yourself the right to apply your moral standards to e.g. Afghanistan, you must be ready to accept that they apply their moral standards to your country.
Leaving aside the part about Kant, what do you mean by "apply your moral standards"? All anyone has done here is say they are bad on an internet board and as much as I disagree with them, I am fine with those I condemn doing that to me.
