Thursday, October 8, 2009

More evidence from Code Pink: double standard

As if, as if, the argument wasn't every bit as relevant when Bush was President, that women in Afghanistan would suffer if we left:

"'Code Pink' rethinks its call for Afghanistan pullout: In Afghanistan, the US women's activist group finds that their Afghan counterparts want US troop presence – as well as more reconstruction."

"...Code Pink, founded in 2002 to oppose the US invasion of Iraq, is one of the more high-profile women's antiwar groups being forced to rethink its position as Afghan women explain theirs: Without international troops, they say, armed groups could return with a vengeance – and that would leave women most vulnerable.

"Though Afghans have their grievances against the international troops' presence, chief among them civilian casualties, many fear an abrupt departure would create a dangerous security vacuum to be filled by predatory and rapacious militias. Many women, primary victims of such groups in the past, are adamant that international troops stay until a sufficient number of local forces are trained and the rule of law established. (Read more about Afghan women's concerns here.)..."

The whole article: http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1006/p06s10-wosc.html

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