Posted on 08/23/2008 10:17:34 PM PDT by Lorianne
When I went to Kabul in the mid-Nineties, the Taliban was at the height of its powers.
Young girls, if they went to school, did so in secret, in basements, big eyes full of fear. Young boys, even tiny ones, openly ridiculed women in the streets.
Women were not allowed to be treated by male doctors; they were not allowed to venture out unless accompanied by a male family member.
My first thought when those two planes flew into the Twin Towers was that perhaps now a dozing giant would be roused and something might be done about a part of the world where women are treated as less than nothing.
I couldn't understand why so many outwardly 'liberal' people were against invading Afghanistan.
To me, no matter what stirred us from our inertia, liberating those women was as important as freeing the inhabitants of Belsen.
When young and old marched in London against the war in Iraq (and, by default, against the war with the Taliban), I refused to join them. Instead, I sat at home, watching their smug, righteous faces on the news, wondering why they were on the side of the oppressors.
It has not been fashionable or comfortable, as a Leftie, being on the side of Bush and Blair, but I have always believed we were doing the right thing.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It is difficult to argue with anything in this article. That it is written by a self-styled “Leftie” is a surprise.
>It has not been fashionable or comfortable, as a Leftie, being on the side of Bush and Blair, but I have always believed we were doing the right thing.<
A leftie on the side of Bush and Blair..she lost me there. j/k. History in the long run, will be kind to Bush and Blair.
She, like many Lefties, soon find out that the Left is not what it claims to be. It only uses issues like feminism, issue it usually creates, to further the Leftist deception and domination.
There was no concern by the Left for the women of Afghanistan, only for the condemnation of the America -upporting government.
Behavior can be changed by force and/or fear. That particular place has always been kind of nasty, since Kiplimg wrote:
“Before the old Peshawar gate
where Kurd and Kaffir meet
The Governor of Kabul dealt
the justice of the street.
And that was strait as running noose and swift as plunging knife.
Though he who held the longer purse might hold the lomger life.”
Perhaps a Leftist can see the light if they ever bothered to pay more then lip service to human rights...
Naaah....to shallow...
Christopher Hitchens and Joe Lieberman are leftists and both been unwavering in their support of the war.
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