Am not at all surprised to see Kharzai sell out on this, he goes with the flow, and the flow right now is heading towards abandoning Afghanistan to legalised female slavery and civil war. i.e. back to 2001.
Fawzia Koofi is on Sky News right now talking about this. I'm amazed that women like her are still so brave and determined to fight this shit. I guess we still need to pressure Hague & Co. to stand with them.
Indeed. The question of what we can do is difficult, though. We're taking the troops out, and we aren't going to re-invade to establish women's rights, are we? Here's what I suggested to Julian Huppert a few months ago; Hague brushed it off, not willing to admit the limitations of direct British power.
"A smarter course of action might well start in Pakistan, because that's the main interface between Afghanistan and the rest of the world. Getting women's rights working in a grassroots movement there, and spreading from there into Afghanistan, seems like a possible tactic. Yes, it's subverting their society. We haven't done much good trying to change things by force, have we? Do we think that agreements we make will carry much weight once we no longer have troops in place? Subversion is the tactic we have left."
And there are a lot of British women with Pakistani backgrounds who have better lives here. They might be able to help, given some backing and resources.
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Date: 2012-03-18 10:58 am (UTC)Am not at all surprised to see Kharzai sell out on this, he goes with the flow, and the flow right now is heading towards abandoning Afghanistan to legalised female slavery and civil war. i.e. back to 2001.
Fawzia Koofi is on Sky News right now talking about this. I'm amazed that women like her are still so brave and determined to fight this shit. I guess we still need to pressure Hague & Co. to stand with them.
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Date: 2012-03-18 06:53 pm (UTC)"A smarter course of action might well start in Pakistan, because that's the main interface between Afghanistan and the rest of the world. Getting women's rights working in a grassroots movement there, and spreading from there into Afghanistan, seems like a possible tactic. Yes, it's subverting their society. We haven't done much good trying to change things by force, have we? Do we think that agreements we make will carry much weight once we no longer have troops in place? Subversion is the tactic we have left."
And there are a lot of British women with Pakistani backgrounds who have better lives here. They might be able to help, given some backing and resources.