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DIANA WEST: EYELESS IN A STAN, CLUELESS AT HOME AS WELL…….

THE TUNDRA TABLOIDS AGREES WITH DIANA WEST, IT ISN’T THE US THAT’S ABANDONING WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN, ISLAM DID THAT AGES AGO. KGS




DIANA WEST: Live our values,” Gen. David Petraeus wrote recently to troops in Afghanistan. “This is what distinguishes us from our enemies.”
Unfortunately, this is also what distinguishes us from many of our “friends.” This culture-chasm is what makes the infidel struggle for hearts and minds across Islamic lands so recklessly, wastefully futile, something I was once again reminded of on reading Time magazine’s cover story featuring 18-year-old Aisha. Aisha is a lovely Afghan girl whose husband and brother-in-law, on instructions from a local judge and Taliban commander, sliced off her ears and nose and left her dying to set an example for other wives thinking of running away from abusive in-laws. Only her discovery by U.S. troops saved Aisha’s life.
But where was Aisha’s father? Where was her family? Where were her town’s elders? Where was Hamid Karzai? Turns out her family did nothing to protect her from the Taliban, Time writes. Why? The magazine describes a mixture of fear and shame that I hope still strikes the average American family as so foreign as extra-terrestrials. Time further explains: “A girl who runs away is automatically considered a prostitute … and families that allow them back home would be subject to widespread ridicule.” When Aisha’s father enticed her home with promises of a new husband, the girl refused because she was fearful that her family would sell her into slavery, or murder her.
Similar scenarios play out beyond the wilds of the Taliban zone wherever Sharia culture flowers, an expanding zone that now includes urban centers of the Western world — from Berlin to London to Atlanta to Calgary — where previously unimagined assaults on women and girls are taking place almost exclusively from within Islamic communities. This gruesome fact renders Time’s cover line — “What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan” — absurdly provincial in scope. That is, it’s not only in Afghanistan where Islamic men have dominion over Islamic women. It is wherever Islamic law, de facto or de jure, empowers them.
It is into this brutish society that American and NATO troops have again been ordered to mix, this time by Gen. Petraeus who believes, as a Pentagon release put it, “meeting and understanding the people is the main mission for military forces.” Calling for more interaction with “the people,” Petraeus told his forces: “Take off your sunglasses. Situational awareness can only be gained by interacting face to face, not separated by ballistic glass or Oakleys.” This last bit inspired a note from a Marine mom who reminded me that eye protection is what defends our soldiers from blast-borne fragments that cause blindness or brain injuries.

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2 Responses

  1. I'm beginning to agree with many of my right thinking conservative friends that nation building is a waste of time , lives, and money. How can we as a western culture go into an area that has been molded into a lifestyle and religious culture for thousands of years and 'zap' expect an quick or rapid change? I now feel that change will come very slowly only if the populace and culture want it. Let them stay in their 7th century religious concentration camps and not bring their mode of living to us in the west. Our lives are already complex enough and we have enough problems to deal with in our own lands. I'm not talking isolationism just common sense.

  2. The Tundra Tabloids whole heartedly agrees with your analysis, spot on analysis I might add, in every way. KGS

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