"Although girls can now go to school, few have discarded the burqa, which for the west came to symbolise Taliban repression. And in recent weeks there have been a spate of self-immolations from women forced into marriage. The country's chief justice, Fazl Hadi Shinwari, has stopped female singers from appearing on television and is trying to ban women from driving.Four more years of Bush Jr. and Company would be four more years of "helping" other countries into this kind of situation? In, out, cut, and run?
'Any advances are relative advances tempered with neo-Taliban practices against women,' said Sima Wali, head of Refugee Women in Development. 'Women are still subjected to sexual violence, torture, trafficking in women, forced marriage, domestic violence - the list goes on and on.'"
Okay, fine, what about the policies he's carrying out at home? How about discrediting what you can't feasibly deny? Even if it puts our critical, in-place security operatives at risk...
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