Comments on: Afghanistan: Will Obama Listen to the Women? http://codepink.org/blog/2009/10/afghanistan-will-obama-listen-to-the-women/ the Personal is Political Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John Dudley http://codepink.org/blog/2009/10/afghanistan-will-obama-listen-to-the-women/comment-page-1/#comment-2283 John Dudley Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:16:10 +0000 http://codepink4peace.org/blog/?p=2435#comment-2283 Somehow the drive to stop in the killing in Afganistan has been detoured into the realm of protecting woman's rights. What has Code Pink been drinking? Think back : wasn't one of the alternative justifications for the bloody invasion of Afghanistan eight years ago to protect women from the Taliban's oppression. The phrase "better alternatives" actually means that the US will be continuing to occupy a country that has seen far more deaths perpetrated under the auspices of US and it "democratic aspirations" than were ever perpetrated during even the worst days of the previous Taliban regime. "Better alternatives" give me a sense of deju vu because this is the same term that was continually bandied about during to the Viet Nam war to justify our continued presence there. The immediate plan should be to find a way to end the wholesale slaughter in Afghanistan. It should not be to find a way to advance woman's rights or even democracy. The quickest way you end a war is simply to stop fighting and leave. What could be simpler. Let me repeat: you end a war simply by stop fighting an leaving. Any other plan has a potential for a continuing disaster. The Afghani women who are presently serving in the US directed occupation government in Afghanistan are, sad to say, considered to be simply puppets(quislings) of the American occupiers by the majority of their fellow Afghans. They have absolutely no legitimacy and have stupidly allowed themselves to be put in this position which will ultimately prove a disaster for them. Somehow the drive to stop in the killing in Afganistan has been detoured into the realm of protecting woman’s rights. What has Code Pink been drinking? Think back : wasn’t one of the alternative justifications for the bloody invasion of Afghanistan eight years ago to protect women from the Taliban’s oppression.

The phrase “better alternatives” actually means that the US will be continuing to occupy a country that has seen far more deaths perpetrated under the auspices of US and it “democratic aspirations” than were ever perpetrated during even the worst days of the previous Taliban regime.

“Better alternatives” give me a sense of deju vu because this is the same term that was continually bandied about during to the Viet Nam war to justify our continued presence there.

The immediate plan should be to find a way to end the wholesale slaughter in Afghanistan. It should not be to find a way to advance woman’s rights or even democracy. The quickest way you end a war is simply to stop fighting and leave. What could be simpler.

Let me repeat: you end a war simply by stop fighting an leaving. Any other plan has a potential for a continuing disaster. The Afghani women who are presently serving in the US directed occupation government in Afghanistan are, sad to say, considered to be simply puppets(quislings) of the American occupiers by the majority of their fellow Afghans. They have absolutely no legitimacy and have stupidly allowed themselves to be put in this position which will ultimately prove a disaster for them.

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