Reply #25: Actually, these attacks on women [View All]

[sabrina 1]

escalated after the US invasion. They fear that women are being influenced by western culture. There have been tons of reports of this kind of thing since the initial invasion, but mostly in the foreign press as the Bush administration was using the 'freedom for women' as part of the propaganda that we are doing some good in that country.

Interesting that we are now hearing about it. I guess we can expect to hear a lot more as the country gets ready to escalate the war over there, and nothing gets us more ready to bomb a country than to tell us how evil the leaders are.

The truth is, if this war escalates, women will be in even more danger there. And the other unpleasant truth is, it is because of our secret war there in the eighties, that the problem exists in the first place. As soon as the US has no 'further interests' somewhere, they leave, as they did Afghanistan, leaving a power vacuum that was filled by the Taliban, which initially was seen as a good thing, as they restored some order to a country that was shamefully left by the US and the USSR in a state of chaos.

If the US had wanted to help they should have negotiated with the Taliban who were desperately seeking International recognition before 9/11. Bombs don't solve anything. I wonder how many women and children our bombs have killed in that country. Karzai has repeadedly asked the US to stop bombing their civilians.

I really hope Democrats don't make this their war, as Bush made Iraq, his. That would be as disastrous for those people as the Iraq has been for Iraqis. But the signs so far are not good. And I hope the anti-war movement doesn't think that a Dem war is somehow better than a Repub war, because it isn't.