Posted on 11/24/2001 7:54:57 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
WASHINGTON- House Democrats say the United States must help build and nurture a government in Afghanistan that respects the rights of women.
The recent victories of the northern alliance make it necessary to plan for a post-Taliban regime, Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald said in the Democratic radio address aired Saturday.
"The need to ensure that Afghan women will be able to participate freely in the establishment of any interim settlement ... is paramount," said Millender-McDonald of California.
Northern alliance troops closed in Friday on Taliban and al-Qaida fighters trapped in Kunduz, seizing an outlying town without a fight. Alliance commanders said they expected the city to surrender this weekend.
While rebel leaders have said they would allow the United Nations to construct a new government, it is uncertain how much power they would concede to U.N. negotiators and what role women would be allowed to play.
Millender-McDonald said female members of the House are working with U.N. ambassadors to find educated Afghan women in exile and convince them to return. She said they could become a voice for women's rights in the country.
"The women of Afghanistan have had to endure the brutality of the Taliban government for years," she said. "We can be certain that any future government of Afghanistan will not be sustainable unless all elements of Afghan society are included, especially its women, in determining a lasting settlement and political framework for the future."
Actually, here's a better idea...
spald, meant to ping you to #21, too.
Not that I don't appreciate the right thong on the right woman, and I'm sure I won't surprise anyone by saying that I enjoy racy humor, but after what the Afghani women have been through, that's the last thing on my mind. They need guns.
I don't really understand why so many soccer moms are against guns. If no one has guns, brute force wins confrontations, and women are the biggest victims.
Democrats have really stabbed women in the back on this issue. I'll bet they try their best to do it in Afghanistan, too.
Yes, it is. Even if I do get in a squabble with a couple of posters on it.
I can't understand the soccer mom mentality, either. But that's where we may be slipping up...any group that would elect Clinton TWICE hasn't got any mentality!
They are against guns because of "group think". They hear Million Mom March and automatically lock in step. Don't even bother to look around and ask, "Er, where's the Million?"
As a resounding toast to their fearless leader Bubba, I nominate the above headline as the "DemocRAT Hypocritical Quote of the Day".
(You have a category for that, right?)
That was my sentiment about it. Of course they will have to take the abortion doctors and the "boy love" magazines to help bring them up to speed on all the wonderful things they have to offer.
Cultures can change, but that does not make it the business of outsiders to try to change them. We are fighting an enemy that attacked us. We have no role other than that in this War.
As for the 60s, they were certainly very far from ideal. Most of the movements that have messed up America since, were well underway then. But culturally, Americans had a much clearer idea of what was right and what was nonsense than is so today. What was wrong with the 60s is a lot more wrong today. (Clinton was a disciple of the agitation of the 60s, and while speaking like a moderate, actually advanced the cultural nihilism of the Great Society further than Lyndon Johnson ever would have dreamed possible.)
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