Do YOU Approve of OPM Being Sent Overseas?

News Buzzard wrote:Where was your protest when we were spending trillions on unnecessary wars? Oh wait a minute, that's because Bush was President, and Bush and Cheney could do no wrong. Are we rebuilding mosques that we knocked down?

Get a life!!!

News Buzzard wrote:Nonsense! We never should have gone into Iraq! It was done with very little international support and completely devoid of any strategic planning. The fact that Democrats in Congress voted for it means nothing because they voted on bad information. Besides, you can't get around the fact that the President of The United States is the Commander In Chief and ordered the invasion! You always try to take the heat off Bush, but history will never allow that!

Outerlimits wrote:Your absence of intellectual integrity is astounding.

"When U.S. forces toppled the Taliban government following the 9/11 attacks, there was a global wave of support from people horrified by the plight of Afghan women. Under the Taliban, women had been denied education, banned from medical treatment by male doctors, and publicly executed for "immorality."

The Taliban's fall promised women some basic freedoms and rights. Indeed, over the past 10 years there have been significant improvements for Afghan women and girls. Official restrictions ended on access to education, work, and health care. Millions of girls went to school for the first time. Women joined government, won elected office, and became police officers and even soldiers. A new constitution in 2004 guaranteed women equal rights, and a 2009 law made violence against women a crime.

Underneath the surface of these changes, however, deep seated problems persist. Women in public life have suffered harassment, threats, and sometimes murder. Forced marriage, underage marriage, and domestic violence are widespread and too widely accepted.

About 400 women and girls are imprisoned at present for the "moral crimes" of sex outside of marriage and simply running away from home, often to flee abuse. While education is more accessible, more than half of girls still don't go to school. Every two hours an Afghan woman dies of pregnancy-related causes.

As the announced departure of international forces in 2014 draws closer, many Afghan women look to the future with fear. They worry that the troop pullout signals the end of interest in Afghanistan, and with it the international commitment to push the Afghan government to promote and protect women's rights. Also likely to decrease is the foreign aid that pays for schools and clinics that have changed many lives. Afghan women fear being abandoned again by the rest of the world, as they were during the Taliban era."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/08/opinion/afghanistan-women-rights-barr/

News Buzzard wrote:And after which war did we not leave a vulnerable group behind? After Vietnam it was the Hmong, thousands of whom now live in America. Why do you think Karzai is being cagey with us? It's because the President of Afghanistan was assassinated after the Russians left! We never seem to learn our lesson!