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Clinton Has an Opportunity to End Taliban Oppression of Women in Afghanistan

April 08, 2009 04:30 PM ET | Bonnie Erbe | Permanent Link | Print

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Hydrogen is found in abundance in the known universe; stupidity, naivety and hysteria is found the United States of America!

Americans will never learn where the source of their value system comes from let alone justifying it to others before others can adapt it (#1). Afghanistan was a civilized country once upon a time when the US wasn’t even conceived. Women were becoming from being dependent to interdependent with the vision to become independent. But their rights were taken by the political upheaval that was caused by America's negligence when Afghanistan was turned into a battle ground of the US proxy war with the former Soviet Union (#2).

The sooner the US buttout from there the sooner the dust will settle. Terrorism was brought to Afghanistan by the US of A. Afghans didn’t know what terrorism means. We learned about it in books when we came across the US using the first nuclear bomb on civilians in Japan!

Lucky, lucky, lucky Larry (below)

was not born in Afghanistan, so he "doesn't live there" and thinks that The Taliban is not our problem.

It's amazing forgetfulness I guess that some people cannot remember that the 9/11 event spawned out of that region and those people. Since we've spent about a trillion now avenging that event WITHOUT eliminating the root, I'd say it is our problem.

Evidently Defense Secretary Gates thinks so too since he is ordering 50 more new predator drones.

Missing the boat

Our brave men and woman are not there to impose our beliefs on the Afghan people. We are there to remove a terrorist threat.

The people of Afghanistan need to determine their own way of life, and not have ours shoved down their throat.

I don’t like how they treat women but I don’t live there, nor would I.

I knew this had to be Bonnie, it’s ok for our troops to be sent into combat for women issues but not for national defense. Typical wrong minded lib.

The Taliban

should not just be defeated on the "front" of their position about the suppression of females by the "tactic" of putting more women in the Afghan government.

The Taliban should be defeated militarily, period. Every man who joins a group that thinks it's okay to beat or whip your wife, sister, daughter, mother, grandmother or girlfriend in the streets needs to end up dead. That's spelled D E A D. You will have no peace whatsoever there until there is no functioning "Taliban".

(We may eventually come to the same inescapable conclusion, by the way, about some of our street gangs in North and South America. Either civility rules, or it doesn't.)

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About Bonnie Erbe

Bonnie Erbe is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report and hosts PBS's weekly news analysis program, To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe. She also writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column for Scripps Howard News Service.

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