“Afghani women aren’t thanking anyone”

That’s the title of a post at this blog. Below is an excerpt:

Do you get the feeling that the Afghan situation is as hopeless as the Iraqi one, or even worse?

Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, the student sentenced to death for downloading a report on women’s right from the Internet, is still in prison.

NATO is divided over the issue of more troops, while British soldiers are over-stretched and under-equipped.

Perhaps one of the worst things about it, despite President Karzai’s claim that the war over the Taliban is “won” and that what remains is a “terrorist problem”, is that Afghani women are experiencing terrible suffering. …