While terribly disheartening, as the Feminist Peace Network has been saying since the U.S. first invaded Afghanistan, expressions of concern for women’s human rights are only window-dressing, the lives of Afghan women are callously being used as bargaining chips, to be gambled for political power and control. Via The Times Online (UK):
(T)he United States and Britain are now opposed to any strong public protest because they fear that speaking out could disrupt Thursday’s election, according to two sources familiar with the donors’ meeting.
“There was a disagreement over how to respond,” one of the sources said. “The British and Americans were reluctant to speak out.” The controversy exposes the contradictions between Afghanistan’s traditional values and Western efforts to instill democracy and human rights after toppling the Taleban.
More to the point it exposes the misogynistic reality of the American and British definition of democracy.
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