Stardate 20011120.0728 (On Screen): There are many, many people who will ultimately benefit from the war in Afghanistan, but primary among those are the women who live there. Their treatment by the Taliban was beastly. It's entirely possible that there are some who will continue to wear the burqa, but it appears that as soon as it became possible to do so, most shed their burqas and exposed their faces. And they are already organizing politically; they attempted to hold a march in Kabul yesterday. (It's been postponed a week.) And what do they want? Nothing important, just equal rights, education for their daughters, jobs, the ability to move about freely. Little things like that, things that would have gotten them beaten or shot by the Taliban. Some of that they'll get immediately; some may take decades. (It took a hundred years in the US.) But they have that opportunity now,
because of the bombing. (discussion in progress)I predict celebratory demonstrations on campuses all over the US praising the bombing for liberating the women of Afghanistan. No, I don't.
