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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (41957)	1/4/2002 1:03:43 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

<<< One might note that this is hardly the first time that the concerns of advocates of women's rights in Afghanistan have been dismissed. Thus, in 1988 the UNDP senior adviser on women's rights in Afghanistan warned that the "great advances" in women's rights she had witnessed there were being imperiled by the "ascendant fundamentalism" of the U.S.-backed radical Islamists. Her report was submitted to the New York Times and Washington Post, but not published; and her account of how the U.S. "contributed handsomely to the suffering of Afghan women" remains unknown. >>> zmag.org It is ironic that America's greatest enemy is Osama Bin Laden, who twenty years ago answered America's call to arms against the Communists. Though, for the people of Afghanistan, it is not so much ironic as it is tragic, as this turf war between two imperial powers destroyed their country. Tom