For War on Terror, Women Rally Like Never Before

FOXnews.com ^ | November 07, 2001 | FOXnews.com

[grimalkin]

NEW YORK

[cajungirl]

Not surprised. You ought to see the women I know when their families are threatened. They are more militant than any man I know. When it feels personal, women are able to be as vicious and aggressive as any man alive.

[Saundra Duffy]

Liberate the women of Afghanistan! I'd rather be dead than to have to live like that. For victory & freedom!!!

[JustAmy]

We don't care what you say, we're going to bomb them anyway!!!
Do I sound like a war monger yet? ;^)

[GVnana]

"The attack has been on our own shores and is from a source that from a women's point of view violates all human rights," said Marjorie Lightman, historian and senior fellow at Women's Research and Education Institute. "We don’t have an international police force to take action so we must take military action."

Bullshit! Don't you just love how these "experts" put words in the mouths of those surveyed? Sorry folks, but the treatment and rights of Afghan women don't mean anything except to those who profit by exploiting the misery of others.

Our own people are dead. Our children's futures are at risk. We have an openly avowed enemy of the American people who advocates killing us. That means war.

American women care about this war because our families are at risk. Not because some "sister" in Afghanistan wears a Halloween costume.

[He Rides A White Horse]

Something in it for everyone, I suppose.

[In mourning for six years]

I agree--the female of any species can be violently agressive when her young are threatened and, woe to anyone or anything that gets in our way!

[Howlin]

FROM AN EMAIL I RECEIVED:

Take all American women who are within five years of menopause - train us for a few weeks, outfit us with automatic weapons, grenades, gas masks, moisturizer with SPF15, Prozac, hormones, chocolate, and canned tuna - drop us (parachuted, preferably) across the landscape of Afghanistan, and let us do what comes naturally.

Think about it. Our anger quotient alone, even when doing standard stuff like grocery shopping and paying bills, is formidable enough to make even armed men in turbans tremble. We've had our children, we would gladly suffer or die to protect them and their future. We'd like to get away from our husbands, if they haven't left already. And for those of us who are single, the prospect of finding a good man with whom to share life is about as likely as being struck by lightning. We have nothing to lose.

We've survived the water diet, the protein diet, the carbohydrate diet, and the grapefruit diet in gyms and saunas across America and never lost a pound. We can easily survive months in the hostile terrain of Afghanistan with no food at all!

We've spent years tracking down our husbands or lovers in bars, hardware stores, or sporting events...finding bin Laden in some cave will be no problem.

Uniting all the warring tribes of Afghanistan in a new government? Oh, please ... we've planned the seating arrangements for in-laws and extended families at Thanksgiving dinners for years ... we understand tribal warfare.

Between us, we've divorced enough husbands to know every trick there is for how they hide, launder, or cover up bank accounts and money sources. We know how to find that money and we know how to seize it ... with or without the government's help!

Let us go and fight. The Taliban hates women. Imagine their terror as we crawl like ants with hot-flashes over their godforsaken terrain. I'm going to write my Congresswoman. You should, too!

LIFE is what happens when you are making other plans. IMAGINE the Possibilities!!!

[RoyCohn]

bump

[alethia]

This overwhelming support has to do with the fact that children and families are being threatened. It IS personal. You just don't mess with my family or my kid. PERIOD. AND -- you sure as HXLL don't screw with my country.

I'm probably much more militant that most women. I was in support of the Iraq action and very much supported the military (not necessarily the political leadership) during Vietnam.

I don't really agree with the point about how Afghan women are treated being a part of this. If there wasn't the PERSONAL issue, most women would want a focus group and some sort of assistance program to deal with this.

[He Rides A White Horse]

Talk about a group inviting everybody to beat on them.............the Taliban has it covered.

[Abn1508]

Yes ma'am. We're on it.

[cajungirl]

My daughters sent me that email,,it tickled me. And I think the WTC and Pentagon attacks made the personal, my family, my country, my army all sort of meld together in a way that I think Viet Nam or Korea or Iraq didn't. This was like WWII. And to see that attack just burned into my mind that my kids, my husband, my friends could have been there. And that these people want to destroy us, our history, our country. I am not surprised that women are militant. I would bomb these people into obscurity if I could and if innocents got hurt, well tough. It is them or us.

[Howlin]

I keep thinking of those sayings we read here on FR from time to time: "They needed killing." LOL.

[Highcard2U]

As an American woman, I really don't care about the Afghani women being abused. If they are so stupid and spineless that they allow themselves and their children to be abused that't their problem to deal with. As an American woman, I DO care about the safety and freedom of my country and our future. I would gladly bear arms for my country. God, Country and Family is what matters. Let those long nosed ugly bags fend for themselves.

[cajungirl]

I hadn't thought about this before but those of you upthread are right. The message is it is okay to have a war for those poor distant third world women and that is good. For them, to protect ourselves is not all right. Now I think just the opposite. Heck, hell on earth happens and not only in afghanistan, it is everywhere. We are more important to us, so it is selfish, that is the truth.

[pjb819]

I may feel sympathy for the women of Afghanistan but that level of emotion can't even approach the level of anger, outrage and hatred I feel toward monster bin laden and his compatriots in terror. I realize it is close to impossible for them to fight their oppressors, especially without weapons. (Massive battered-women syndrome) But my response to this war has not been formed or even swayed by their plight. Even if Afghan women were afforded treatment like pre-taliban times, my support of the war would not decrease. Being a woman may not impact my support; however, I do think that a woman's response would be appropriate for all of the terrorists: the Bobbett.

[keri]

Gosh girl, did you ever say it. It's worth repeating:Our children's futures are at risk. That means war.

Who was the girl (I think from Manhattan) that drew a picture of the Statue of Liberty with a baby in one arm, and a smoking gun in the other hand? This girl really nailed how the majority of mothers feel, I think.

The press can say Americans are impatient, but they obviously are not relating to mothers who will defend their children down to the last mile.