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human rights watchdogs inside and outside Afghanistan fear women's rights may be sacrificed when foregin combat troops leave the country in 2014
This in lieu of the following story from the Guardian that is supposed to make us gasp in surprised shock and is held up as proof positive that if left to their own designs the Afghan males would surely murder all their women for wearing lipstick under their Burqas.
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An Afghan man killed his wife for giving birth to a third daughter rather than the son he hoped for, police in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province have said.
The victim, 28, known by the one name of Storai, was strangled by her husband, a local militia member, and his mother on Saturday "in revenge" for bearing the couple's third daughter three months ago in Mohasili village, police said.
Yes, this was a horrible act. To murder is always a horrid thing. But the way the story is presented it’s as if nothing of the sort ever happens in the progressive West. If the Western news media reported every murder that happened in the US alone there wouldn’t be any room left for reporting anything else. It is also as if the great and noble progressive West hasn’t been slaughtering not only Afghan women but children as well. In Obama’s very first week as Dear Leader he murdered children in Pakistan in what was to become his signature feature which is Obama’s lovely little drone war against civilians who have done nothing against Obama or the US.
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From Times Online January 23, 2009
President Obama 'orders Pakistan drone attacks'
(US Air Force/EPA)
A Predator drone
Tim Reid in Washington
Missiles fired from suspected US drones killed at least 15 people inside Pakistan today, the first such strikes since Barack Obama became president and a clear sign that the controversial military policy begun by George W Bush has not changed.
Security officials said the strikes, which saw up to five missiles slam into houses in separate villages, killed seven "foreigners" - a term that usually means al-Qaeda - but locals also said that three children lost their lives.
The hypocrisy that is on display, that has been on display for years, decades, and centuries goes unheeded, ignored, and pooh-pooed by most Americans. Indeed the only thing exceptional regarding Americans is their ability and adamantine determination to not see what is right in front of their upturned noses. The fact is Americans and the rest of the West murder on a wholesale basis for much less reason than a woman not giving birth to a male child. The West murders to continue their domination of most of the rest of the world, a worthless and needless endeavor.
Still, this transparent and bungling propaganda is supposed to convince that should we leave Afghanistan the place would surely go to the devil as if we have not created our own little corner of hell on earth for the people of Afghanistan (and Iraq as well as numerous other lands). One wonders how ever did the human world survive before the coming of America for surely it is the most vexing conundrum that it had survived for thousands of years without the good graces and guiding hand of American know-how.
