Troops Out? Ask Afghan Women First.

"If western feminists who have staked out a "troops out" position
remembered to ask Afghan women their views, they would find that rather
than bristling at "masculine militarization," "cultural imperialism,"
or any other in-vogue sin found on the placards waved at rallies, many
Afghan women are haunted by the memory of the Taliban's public stoning
to death of women. They recall what life was like when you couldn't
leave your home alone, when you could not speak aloud in the streets
because your voice was deemed inhuman, subservient, inherently impure.
It was not the West's interference that led to their collective misery,
but the lack of it."

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