One Afghan woman's short history of the progress toward, and then away from, women's equality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmfaUvuZuyU

The narrator is an Afghan woman who left her country 3 decades ago, but never lost her connection with it. Listen to her.

The interview was first posted by Code Pink at http://www.womensaynotowar.org/article.php?list=type&type=400 and then broadcast by Laura Flanders on GritTV which is also online for those who don't have Dish TV: http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/

Sad to say, but not surprising to anyone who has a little bit of familiarity with the activities of those who've controlled the US state over the last half century and much longer, the sort of natural progress toward equality she describes was suppressed when the Carter/Reagan foreign policy "experts" began importing, funding, arming, and organizing the most vile "religious" extremist hatemongers on this planet in order to turn that relatively peaceful backwater into a killing field and a total nightmare for any who believe all humans are human.

Here is a picture from 1978, before those who control our our government decided they preferred to empower Al Qaeda/Taliban types rather than support this sort of change:



And here is a picture of a few (not exactly them, but close enough) of the 90 or so children this government slaughtered and maimed a week or so ago:



(Photo credit to Luke Powell. See http://lukepowell.com for many, many more photos and some excellent comments.)

I haven't heard the names of the murdered children or adults recited on the TV thing. Were Malia or Sasha among those names, or do their names matter? They are dead and they were murdered by US. And, as things look now, we, the US, will continue to slaughter innocents for geopolitical gaming points until this sick murderous empire destroys itself completely.

The couple million dead and more millions driven into refugee camps weren't enough? The slaughter of Afghans still continues, apparently now with even greater enthusiasm and money. Why? No Afghan ever did harm to the US. Yet many here still support mass murder there.

about the "fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here" meme, asking why it's acceptable to make someone else's country a battleground to protect ourselves. It's callous, selfish, and, truly, without moral justification. We sponsored the "freedom fighters" there so they could oppose the Soviets, to give THEM a Vietnam of their very own. Now WE'RE dealing with the fallout from that strategic decision, thanks to the stupidity and arrogance of BushCheney and Friends.

And these people are taking the brunt of it. If anything, we should be MORE pissed off about it than we are. We won last November, in part, due to simple fatigue, not outrage. And that itself is a bit of an outrage.

Hmmm. I feel a post coming on.

People who don't get this or care, well, that's the problem. The people of Afghanistan didn't deserve being massacred and put under domination by a repressive theocracy any more than your family and closest friends. The Masters of the US have been turning their lives into a living hell since Carter.

Do you want these atrocities to continue under Obama, who now recently recruited mass murderers Kissinger and Brzezinski to join him? Sure you do. Now you can go to sleep. "Dear Leader knows all and is just and wise and Afghans are not really human."