Disastrous, Catastrophic, Murderous, Deceptive, Illegal, & Criminal

who wants to see Afghanistan restored to what it was in the 1960s:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10…

American and Afghan scholars and diplomats say it is worth recalling four decades in the country’s recent history, from the 1930s to the 1970s, when there was a semblance of a national government and Kabul was known as “the Paris of Central Asia.”

Afghans and Americans alike describe the country in those days as a poor nation, but one that built national roads, stood up an army and defended its borders. As a monarchy and then a constitutional monarchy, there was relative stability and by the 1960s a brief era of modernity and democratic reform. Afghan women not only attended Kabul University, they did so in miniskirts. Visitors – tourists, hippies, Indians, Pakistanis, adventurers – were stunned by the beauty of the city’s gardens and the snow-capped mountains that surround the capital.

I do not want the Taliban to retake control in Afghanistan.  It was a nightmare for women, many of whom had earned degrees and previously worked as doctors, lawyers, teachers…and were subsequently forced into burqas & not allowed to leave the house without a husband or son accompanying them.

As a woman, I cannot support the Taliban.  As a woman, I cannot support leaving Afghanistan so that it can return to the horror show it was before we invaded.  Agreed: we need a better policy there.  But please do not conflate Georgie’s misadventure in Iraq with the desperate longings of women in Afghanistan to be free once more.