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Here's what $1.5 billion for women's rights in Afghanistan gets you
americanthinker.com ^ | 10/27/2016 | Ed Straker

Posted on 10/27/2016 4:20:54 AM PDT by rktman

America has spent $1.5 billion on women's rights in Afghanistan. Here are the results:

In rural areas, nothing has changed. Women are still imprisoned in their homes. Despite spending at least $1.5 billion on empowering Afghan women, the country is still viewed as one of the worst in the world for women.

The West has helped Afghanistan to expand and improve maternal health care, as well as open up schools that girls can attend in urban and rural areas. But as Nimmi Gowrinathan, a visiting professor at City College in New York, said of educating girls, "That's the reality until the sixth grade, when they get married."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: taxbucks; waronterror
Ya know, if helldabama would vocalize her desire to help with human rights by opening some planned parenthood facilities in Afgahnistan, it might push her over the top with refugee voters. You know, the human and womens rights she's always screeching about. Well, except for those irritating tissue masses that sometime appear in the womb.
1 posted on 10/27/2016 4:20:54 AM PDT by rktman
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Guaranteed the vast majority of that money went into the pockets of the well connected both from Afghanistan and the USA. All part of the government corruption racket.


2 posted on 10/27/2016 4:40:57 AM PDT by circlecity
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Govt corruption? Where’s that? LOL! I know. Boaf places.


3 posted on 10/27/2016 4:46:43 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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What did they expect? Where do you think the money wound up? Eh? To pay for lessons on goat humping? No more of our money needs to be sent to savages.


4 posted on 10/27/2016 5:03:42 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Freedom of speech: an illusion that Americans hold fast to, although it disappeared decades ago.)
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From crooked leadership here....to crooked leadership over there!


5 posted on 10/27/2016 5:15:12 AM PDT by high info voter (Liberal leftists would have "un-friended" Paul Revere!)
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To: circlecity

About half the $$$ was siphoned off before the check found the mailbox.


6 posted on 10/27/2016 7:41:19 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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