New Rule: Anyone arguing that we are in Afghanistan for women´s rights..

[Lars77]

Must immediately call for the invasion of every muslim country in the world (except Bahrain), India, China, most of south-east and central Asia, quite a bit of Africa, the carribean and a couple of central American countries.


The womens rights argument is the final straw the pro-war people are clinging on to, like most of them could give a rat´s ass about womens rights anywhere.

I think the way women are treated around the world is absolutely dreadful, and i think that women´s rights is something that is rarely brought up, if ever, at the highest levels of intergovernmental dialogue. I would genuinely like to see Obama and other heads of state press other leaders on this issue.

But to now, after all these years of wasting lives and money, we are supposed to be in Afghanistan to help women? What about the women in Syria? Saudi Arabia? India? The fact is that most countries in the world who arent western democracies have institutionalized the abuse of women. Adam Jones called it "Gendercide" in his book on Genocide. And this is something that has to be worked on.

But i wonder how long the Pentagon estimates that western troops will have to be in Afghanistan, if the goal is to change the institutionalzed abuse of women in this highly religious, poorly educated tribal society.

Anyone wanna guess?