do.rflex wrote: > Under the new guy: > "Let's not mince words. It's doubtful that President Obama's administration was unaware of the rape bill.
It's more likely that they are intent on sticking by Karzai and supportive of whatever he needs to do to get re-elected, Secretary Clinton's rhetoric about elevating women's rights in foreign policy during her confirmation hearing aside. This kind of ends-justify-the-means foreign policy is essentially realpolitik revisited - the exact kind of short-term "great game" thinking that created the Taliban itself. It's a disgrace and an embarassment to Obama's entire Afghanistan policy, and the domestic economic crisis is no excuse for such a craven failure to stand up for the values we purport to uphold." Read more: 'Mayor Karzai signs pro-rape bill in Afghanistan, scapegoats the Shi'a' Posted by Aziz Poonawalla City of Brass, Tuesday March 31, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/d5aan4 > "We're going to take questions. All right. Just want to > make sure my mike's working here. Here's the deal on > questions. First of all, we didn't screen anybody. So > there's some people who like me in the audience, some > people that don't. Some people agree with me, some people > who don't. It doesn't matter. We want to take questions > from everybody." > > ---President Obama, town hall meeting, Elkhart, Indiana > Feb. 2009 > http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0902/09/cnr.04.html >
