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In reply to the discussion: Women in Kabul, Afghanistan 1972 and now. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)that war in that country has destroyed women's right to even basic human rights.
Mostly I try to find out what the women who live these countries feel about war, specifically our invasions since there is nothing we can do about other governments and their decisions.
There are very courageous women in Afghanistan who have trying to be heard for the 12 years since Bush invaded their country. While people like Laura Bush told us how her husband's invasion had improved the rights of Afghan women, the ONLY information most Americans received and believed, Afghan women themselves, never featured on the Corporate Media, consistently told of how their plight had in no way improved, despite claims from the Western coalition to the contrary.
If you would like their view of women's rights since the invasion, they have a blog where they have meticulously tracked women's issues in their country.
During the Bush years, RAWA were viewed by the left, as heroic women who risked retaliation by speaking out.
They are still doing so, but not getting as much attention from the Left as they used to.
Here is a link to their website: http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2014/01/09/u-s-troops-are-needed-in-afghanistan-to-protect-women-o-reallyo.html
There is zero I can do regarding the UK's policies on invasions they support.
The only country whose policies we can even try to influence is this one.
Maybe if I didn't care about women all over the world, I would have accepted the position of the US that our adventures in Afghanistan had improved the plight of women there. War is responsible for their plight, the Russian invasion and our secret war against them, then the aftermath where the Taliban was able to take over after everyone left, completely destroyed women's rights there.
And when we went back in 2001, using women's rights as one of the reasons to justify that invasion, which I also opposed, according to Afghan women, only made things worse.
War and women's rights do NOT go together and I stand by my comment on that.