Nothing good is ahead for the women of Afghanistan. It's another layer of terrible on top of an already bad situation. The really bad part is the sheer inevitability of it. The Soviets were relatively progressive in their views on women and learned during their occupation that...

..the more they pushed progressive views the more they upset traditionalists and encouraged armed resistance. The more rapidly one attempts social change the greater the blowback. I consider myself reasonably progressive, even got women in the district center for the 1st time...

..but had to caution people on more than one occasion that we weren't in Afghanistan to push for social change. Social change tends to happen very slowly at first, particularly in relatively closed systems like rural Afghanistan, and is one of the reasons I thought we should...

..commit to stay for 25 years or depart ASAP following OBL's killing. 25 years is basically a generation, a generation that's grown up seeing change in their environment, so there's somewhat of a seed planted. One could also make the argument that we have no business...

..whatsoever pushing our cultural values on others, what with our sadopopulism, murder porn, painal, gang-bang, junk food, reality TV, dystopia fetish, pushing Carl's Jr. Big-Ass Fries on the people of the world selves, but I digress. One thing we love in America is pretending...

..our shit don't stink and part of that I guess is letting everyone else know that their shit stinks to the point of offending us and they oughta do something about that before we do it for them, or to them. Bullshit, it's what plants crave.