Taking a Stand on Afghanistan

his Master's Voice | 10/10/09 | HMV Posted on 10/10/2009 2:27:40 PM PDT by Hillary'sMoralVoid She took a stand on Afghanistan. Sima Samar fought for women's rights there. With courage, determination and at great personal risk, she kept schools and clinics for women open in Afghanistan during the most repressive days of the Taliban regime, whose laws prohibited the education of girls past the age of eight. When the Taliban fell after the American-led invasion of 2002, Samar returned to Kabul and accepted the post of Minister for Women's Affairs, and continued to improve the lot of women in Afghanistan. He's seemed incapable of taking a stand on Afghanistan. Despite soaring rhetoric on the importance of the war there, when our own generals and NATO leaders... [read full story]                    

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