A Modest Proposal for The "Feminist" Empire

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Mon Dec 24 08:56:33 PST 2001



>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>Madeleine K. Albright, "Women in American Foreign Policy," _SAIS
>>Review_ 20.2 (Summer-Fall 2000): 65-70.
>
>And what's the point of this long quote? That anyone who expresses
>support for the liberation of Afghan women is an imperialist
>butcher? That imperialist butchers will stop at nothing to promote
>their bloody designs? Please clarify.
>
>Doug

How would you liberate Afghan women _today_ without imperialist butchers? It is _not_ leftists in the West _but_ Anglo-American armed forces, the Northern Alliance, Russian weaponry, etc. that allowed Afghan women to remove burkas; helped to include two admirable and talented women -- Dr. Sima Samar & General Suhaila Siddiqi -- in positions of power; etc., is it? -- Yoshie

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