If W thinks we should stay until Afghan women will be granted individual rights and be treated decently, then maybe he should give us an estimate of how many centuries that would take. That culture will not significantly change how it treats women in the lifetime of anyone now living.
“Former President George W. Bush is worried the U.S. might pull out of Afghanistan too early to the detriment of that country’s women.”
I hate to clue Dubya and laura in but Hamid Karzai does not let his own wife out of the house. His brother runs the drug trade there. Its totally corrupt. Women in Afghanistan have pretty well been screwed since the beginning of time and nothing short of executing all the men in the country and importing some guys from another country is going to fix it. These people live in a time warp and they like it that way. They don’t want to give up the dancing boys and the burkhas. Not gonna happen. We can’t fix every country. We need to leave.
Good post. Likewise, if he thinks “we have an obligation to help this young Democracy to survive and thrive”, he’s going to have to point me towards an example of a thriving Democracy in any muslim country. It is fundamentally incompatible with their religion. And so are we.