Sunday, August 16, 2009
IMMORAL
We're fighting a war in Afghanistan. Or so I hear. When you read things like this, it's pretty hard to tell what we're fighting for:
An Afghan bill allowing a husband to starve his wife if she refuses to have sex has been published in the official gazette and become law. It allows a man to withhold food from his wife if she refuses his sexual demands; a woman must get her husband's permission to work; and fathers and grandfathers are given exclusive custody of children. What's the point? Americans are dying so these people can have a "democracy." Democracy is the big value here, right? Democracy -- not liberty. As a civilization, we've become so castrated that we can't stand up and say that this is wrong.
Since that's the case, we have no business reorganizing things so that one group of oppressive savages can be in charge instead of another.
Meanwhile, to the extent that it's even possible to say who the enemy in the war is (given the brutality of the natives on our side), the Guardian is reliably on the side of whoever is killing our troops.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 11:33 AM
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