tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-95738970217731354.post5776124920866747838..comments2023-12-28T02:52:31.067-08:00Comments on Went 2 the Bridge: Have Afghan Women Made "Progress" Under NATO?Lisa Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06319699936783253064noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-95738970217731354.post-45224268082397345502012-06-06T17:45:34.162-07:002012-06-06T17:45:34.162-07:00For some reason I won't make any jokes about ...For some reason I won't make any jokes about the Israel lobby here. I follow "icasualties.org" daily and it's, well, as a victim of a vest-bomber in Iraq maybe I am allowed to say, very moving to see the Afghan insurgents risking their lives (and villages and people who might resemble them in satellite photographs, etc) to attack NATO troops when NATO, as you said, has already admitted defeat. You didn't quite put it that way.<br />How do we defend the women of Afghanistan from the men? As Perry Mason would say, let's first make sure that the women are our client--do they want our help, and if so, how and to what end?<br />I'm reading "Peyton Place" by Grace Metalious" and, as of about page forty-four, she's just confirmed my hunch that she wrote a book about woman power, specifically the theory that white women run US society by running in the election for head-priestess of the warlord culture. If a woman falls off the sacred wagon (fallen woman, get it?), the virtuous women lead the lynch mob. Susan Rice and Condy Rice manifest the fact that "white woman" has nothing to do with biology.<br />So how would we fix gender relations in the US?<br />The first step, to paraphrase Abe Lincoln on happiness, is to make up our minds to do it. Here's a small Israel joke. The former chief justice of Israel (?) commented on its Basic Laws (1991) description of Israel as a "Jewish, democratic state" that "equality is a complex right". I would say it is a mighty, towering spiritual challenge: to treat each person, as Kant apparently put it, as an end in herself. I put it this way. Our spirits are all equal. Our bodies should respect that fact.chrisrushlauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11432949074147807503noreply@blogger.com