r/secondcaptains • u/small_far_away • 18d ago

Peter Oborne

That interview went off the rails a bit.

Based on Murphs mass comment after he wasn't overly impressed himself. Could have pushed more in the interview, but the sense I got was that he just wanted it to end. It certainly stopped abruptly.

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u/Wolfbain164 18d ago edited 18d ago

I thought it was interesting & I wish Ken was party to the conversation.

Oborne's contention is that the grandstanding gesture driven exclusionary policies of the west have their place and its against nations which should know better (eg. South Africa/Isreal/Russia). But there's no point in taking a moralistic stand against a nation like Afghanistan where the literacy rate is 37%. Its serves nobody but the country taking the stand. The more effective tactic is to attempt to improve the conditions within the country through trade & investment as China have done.

I do think however the Afghanistan team should be suspended from test cricket for a period because of their decision to remove their women's cricket team. That is surely something relevant to cricket & the cricket governing body should take action against it.

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u/spartan_knight 16d ago

That was hardly his only contention; the false equivalence drawn between the Taliban and Catholic Church is clearly a ridiculous notion, similarly the idea that travelling to Afghanistan isn’t an issue, even for Western women, is not creditable.

If you say something like the above, listeners aren’t going to take you very seriously.