tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4294294294975883770.post723199408773180273..comments2024-01-23T21:51:59.450-05:00Comments on The Gary Baumgarten Report: Afghan's FutureGary Baumgartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16665260595151901802noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4294294294975883770.post-75296794246663208452009-04-04T18:32:00.000-04:002009-04-04T18:32:00.000-04:00You would think the Women's movement (typically li...You would think the Women's movement (typically liberal) would be all over Obama and Hilary for this reaction (or lack thereof). <BR/><BR/>There are so many of what we feel are human rights violations, particularly against women, in Arab countries. There are certain things (like female circumcision) that are horrible, but unless I know what the law really says I can't comment. It seems like the fundamentalist muslim countries give relatively little value to women, but not that long ago our own country struggled in that area too. In some ways I believe we have gone too far to the other side. As the mother of a teenage daughter, the freedom given to many boys and girls these days is frightening!<BR/><BR/>Andrea<BR/><BR/><BR/>PS... Gary, JD9587 says to PM him :)Andreanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4294294294975883770.post-19728904069542026762009-04-04T17:53:00.000-04:002009-04-04T17:53:00.000-04:00Well, the locals idea of human rights and ours are...Well, the locals idea of human rights and ours are incompatible; that is hard to know what to do with, really.<BR/>The idea of a unified Afghanistan is something of a fiction historically speaking, which is another problem; the Pashtuns could be their own country, but then you dismemeber a nuclear armed state in the process, Pakistan, unless you can throw them a bone, i.e. Kashmir, which the Indians probably wouldn't do, unless you could throw them a bone on Sri Lanka maybe, with the Tamils. Hmm.<BR/><BR/>Don RichAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4294294294975883770.post-47622988203779158262009-04-04T17:51:00.000-04:002009-04-04T17:51:00.000-04:00100% correct. This is when America gets a bad name...100% correct. This is when America gets a bad name. When it meets human rights violations with deafening silence. No money, no diplomacy, no help until women are free in Afghanistan. and shame on you Hilary Clinton.<BR/><BR/>Deborah YoungAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4294294294975883770.post-85474556011399379572009-04-04T17:40:00.000-04:002009-04-04T17:40:00.000-04:00I don't think he is really closing Gitmo. He says ...I don't think he is really closing Gitmo. He says he will, but it isn't really happening. Just as he says we will withdraw from Iraq, but all those bases and 50,000 troops will stay forever. Some withdrawal. monkey fingered.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4294294294975883770.post-48459339834610931202009-04-04T12:59:00.000-04:002009-04-04T12:59:00.000-04:00I stand by my blog statements from last September:...I stand by my blog statements from last September: We need to get out of Afghanistan. If we stay there, then we need to completely revise what it is we hope to achieve. I would say the primary thing we could conceivably do to help that country is to build roads and telecommunications infrastructure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com