It’s 2025, and the world is still turning a blind eye to one of the most barbaric regimes on the planet: the Taliban’s brutal occupation of Afghanistan. Nearly four years after Joe Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal handed the country over to 7th-century extremists, the consequences are not just visible—they’re horrifying.
A new United Nations report confirms what conservatives have been saying all along: the Taliban haven’t changed. They’re not moderates. They’re not partners in peace. They are terrorists who have turned Afghanistan into a prison for women and girls.
According to U.N. human rights expert Richard Bennett, the Taliban have “weaponized” Afghanistan’s legal and judicial system to systematically crush the rights of women. Let that sink in. The very institutions meant to uphold justice have been hijacked by Islamist thugs to enforce tyranny. And the world’s so-called human rights champions? Mostly silent.
The Taliban wiped out every legal protection for women overnight after seizing power in 2021. They scrapped the 2004 constitution and erased laws that criminalized rape, child marriage, and domestic abuse. Women are now barred from education past sixth grade, forbidden from most employment, and banned from public spaces like parks and gyms. Even beauty salons are considered too “Western” for Taliban rule.
This isn’t just a rollback of freedoms—it’s a full-scale assault on human dignity. And it’s not accidental. It’s deliberate policy.
The Taliban fired every judge from the previous U.S.-backed government—particularly targeting the roughly 270 female judges—and replaced them with untrained men handpicked for their radical Islamist views. There is no due process. No rights. Just Taliban edicts enforced by force.
Women who now come before these so-called courts are treated with contempt. As Bennett reports, complaints by women are routinely dismissed. Divorce cases? Ignored. Custody battles? Denied. Abuse victims? Silenced. The system is rigged to punish women for seeking justice.
And here’s the kicker: the Taliban have only been officially recognized by one major power—Russia. The rest of the world, including the Biden administration before it was tossed out of office, issued statements, held press conferences, and then promptly did nothing. This is the fruit of Biden’s foreign policy: a terrorist state with zero accountability and millions of women suffering under its boot.
Let’s not forget how we got here. In August 2021, Joe Biden abandoned Afghanistan in one of the most disgraceful military withdrawals in American history. He left behind billions in U.S. military equipment, deserted our Afghan allies, and handed over a functioning nation to religious fanatics with no plan and no backbone. Conservatives warned this would be the result—an empowered Taliban, a humiliated America, and a humanitarian catastrophe. Every bit of that came true.
What’s worse, the so-called international community has responded with little more than hand-wringing. The U.N. can issue all the reports it wants, but reports don’t stop oppression. The Biden-era foreign policy of appeasement and retreat emboldened tyrants from Kabul to Tehran to Moscow. And now women in Afghanistan are paying the price with their lives and their freedom.
President Trump has made clear that American strength deters evil. Under his leadership, the Taliban were contained, pressured, and forced to negotiate on our terms. They knew there would be consequences for breaking their word. Under Biden, there were none. That’s the difference between leadership and surrender.
It’s time for America to reclaim its role as a global force for good—not with endless wars, but with unapologetic strength and moral clarity. That starts by calling the Taliban what they are: a criminal regime committing crimes against humanity. And it means refusing to legitimize or ignore regimes that treat women like cattle.
The world doesn’t need more U.N. reports. It needs leadership with a spine. The kind that comes from America First principles and a president who doesn’t flinch in the face of evil.
Afghanistan’s women deserve better. And so does the world.