> Recently, I heard Sylvia Pujoli (sp?) on US National Public Radio
> reporting on the Afghan meetings in Bonn, where women were
> participating. I found it interesting that she referred to "Gender
> Apartheid" in a news story, not an editorial. Now I have no doubt
> that the Talibums treated women as bad as the Saudis or the Northern
> Alliance (US allies) do, if not worse (though I found little to
> disagree with in Rubin's article, based on a discussion I had with a
> reporter who's been to Afghanistan). But the question is why NPR
> would be editorializing in this way. Two reasons spring to mind:
>
> (1) it's a feminist way of endorsing the Bush Killer Kowboy state's
> attack on Afghanistan; and
>
> (2) it's an effort to leverage the Bush administration's official
> opposition to patriarchy in order to generalize the critique to other
> countries, e.g. Saudia Arabia.
It's #1. NPR and Sylvia have no interest in reporting stuff that strays from the administration line. Of their foreign correspondents, Sylvia is the worst. I recall her reports from Genoa last summer where she was basically making stuff up as she went along.
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An American soldier in a hospital explained how he was wounded: He said, "I was told that the way to tell a hostile Vietnamese from a friendly Vietnamese was to shout ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ If he shoots, he’s unfriendly. So I saw this dude and yelled ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ and he yelled back, ‘To hell with President Johnson!’ We were shaking hands when a truck hit us."
(from 1,001 Ways to Beat the Draft, by Tuli Kupferburg).