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This isn't about some radical feminist agenda. This is about the ability of a human being to live in freedom and without fear of harassment from their government. To right to teach your daughters how to read. To work so that your children don't starve. To not be beaten for showing your face in public or have your fingernails torn off for wearing nail polish or not be shot in the head in a soccer stadium without a trial for some trumped-up charge. If you can't stand up for such basic human rights then I really don't understand what your problem is.

This is about the ability of a human being to live in freedom and without fear of harassment from their government. To right to teach your daughters how to read. To work so that your children don't starve. To not be beaten for showing your face in public or have your fingernails torn off for wearing nail polish or not be shot in the head in a soccer stadium without a trial for some trumped-up charge.

Beautifully said. I'd add having access to medical care--and not to die in childbirth at a rate which is probably near the world's top deaths in childbirth per thousand.

If you can't stand up for such basic human rights then I really don't understand what your problem is.

My point is it isn't the purpose of the Government of the United States to promote basic human rights in OTHER countries. They're not covered by the Consitution. Americans shouldn't be taxed, and their soldier's lives put at risk, defending non-Americans outside America. We ain't the UN. Not that there should be a UN...I believe in sovereignty and national independence and staying out of other countries' wars and internal affairs.

This isn't about some radical feminist agenda.

Kim Gandy, president of the National Organizaton for Women... questioned the Bush administration's commitment to ensuring that Afghan women have a role in a post-Taliban government.

It seems to me that that NOW gang IS trying to get too radical. The Afghan society is not at the same level as the US society. With the exception of some neanderthals, America has grown into accepting the concept of women being equal to men. The Afghan culture is NOT at the same level, and trying to force them to buy into our standards before they are ready to accept them will cause nothing but problems.

Thank you for expressing, and eloquently so, the needs of oppressed women around the world.

I get such a kick out of the reporters who think this tragedy developed the Bush's, like it really took terrorist killing in our homeland 5000 + people. The liberal media will never realize it is because of their character that both Laura and George Bush are the leaders they are and have met the need of their country. The Bush's actions are just what I expect of them.

This reporter makes it sound as if The Whitehouse begged for the Afghan women to attend. I don't believe that for a minute.

I left this post after the 2nd reply - I'm very glad I came back - thank you for posting the pictures. Love them!