For my numerous non-English-speaker readers, I offer an explanation of my headline.
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If you say what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, you mean what is acceptable for one person in a particular situation should be acceptable for another person in a similar situation
Collins Dictionary
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So Western governments ‘are wary of Taliban promises that Afghanistan will not go back to the harsh fundamentalist rule exercised during their last period in power before 2001.’
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1922231
Indeed, and no doubt civilised Afghans, especially women, are a lot more ‘wary,’ with good reason.
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It’s hard to believe that, in this day and age, the terrorist gang in control in Kabul openly despise the very concept of democracy.
Even the tyrants in Beijing and Havana and Pyongyang pay lip service to democratic principles…
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….though in practice the marxists trample those principles daily.
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In Afghanistan, the new kill-joy cabal instead, in all seriousness, insist that in their ‘Emirate,’ what passes for law will be enacted by decree…

….,diktats issued by ignorant mullahs, who blasphemously lie – that they know what God Almighty requires.
Yet when all’s said and done, how many Western governments will lift a finger to prevent such a long evil night descending on Afghanistan?
And if they say they won’t recognise such a barbaric regime, how will they respond when charged with hypocrisy…
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…with brazen double standards?
For almost every Western government, as far as I know, maintains diplomatic relationships with the satanic ayatollahs, whose lackeys even get a seat at the United Nations!
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Iran does have a ‘parliament,’ yes, but nobody may stand for that parliament without the consent of the ‘Supreme Leader! ‘
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And ever since the monstrous Khomeini came to power, that position has been held by, guess who?
Ignorant mullahs, who blasphemously lie – that they know what God Almighty requires.
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