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She's got an impressive resume. I have always believed she is well qualified for the positions she has held.
I've read lots of books of women who live in the middle east and American women married to Arab men who lived there. Whether middle class, poor, or wealthy and upper class, none were well treated. State department officers would not help these women either.
Everything is consistent in every book I've read.
The best evidence is what you see with your own eyes, but you can also believe eyewitness testimony. They use it in court, it is in the Bible to prove the divinity of Christ.
The Arab street was not kind to the US after September 11th.
Diogenesis has posted many pictures of Arab countries, both positive and negative.
No country is 100 percent, but the bad treatment of women is predominant.

I think there must have been some intelligent thought behind placing Liz in a responsible position and sending Laura over there to the Near/Middle East.
Things are better or they would not have sent the First Lady there.

I'm wondering what the intelligent thought planned to accomplish. Wonder if there is some humble pie here. And Condi as Secretary of State and the Arab men have to deal with her.

Regardless, it is a big change from what was ten years ago to now. It is a startling change. And I don't think they are quite finished with the change.

Thanks for the resume. The part where I thought she was giving out assistance was the special assistant to the deputy secretary of state for US assistance projects in the former Soviet Union and China, in 1992-1993. I thought that was for middle eastern countries so I must be mistaken.

I would imagine that it is a lot different for the Arab women than how the Arabs treat western women in business or politics.

We had an interview on Sky TV today with the wife of the Syrian President boy was she a pretty and very educated lady. I don't know if you are aware of her story she was educated in Britain born of Syrian parents, then worked in the City as an investment banker before marrying the Syrian President.

Apparently when they wed she did not want any photos of her in the Syrian papers and during the first month of her marriage she went around Syrian in jean and Tshirt talking to the ordinary Syrian women to find out what they wanted etc. She also refuses to have a driver and drives herself and her children in her own car. She seemed one feisty lady a lady that hopefully will be able to change attitudes and rights to women in the middle east.

She made a very good comment that some many people judge how women are treated by the fact they are behind the veil. She said it is not a case of how women decide to dress that is the issue but how they are treated as women that should be looked at.

She is in Europe to promote women's rights, I was very impressed by her by the way she was dressed in pale blue jacket and skirt.