Aisha is an 18-year-old Afghan woman whose nose and ears were cut off by a Taliban butcher for the “crime” of running away from the beatings she routinely suffered at the hands of her husband’s family. Aisha’s picture appears on the cover of Time magazine this week, provoking controversy.
So begins a characteristically brilliant piece by Terry Glavin in which he subjects the Wikigeeks at Wikileaks to a blistering critique. Read it in its entirety here.
There are two things people should keep in mind.
1) This act of mutilation took place during the US occupation of Afghanistan.
2) The same things are being done to women and girls by warlords that the US is siding with in Afghanistan. (They are just as nutty fundamentalist as the Taliban.)
libhomo:
Here’s the problem with your comment:
“This act of mutilation took place during the US occupation of Afghanistan.”
That is a lie. There is no “US occupation of Afghanistan.” The US is one of 43 nations with soldiers in Afghanistan as part of a UN-mandated security and reconstruction effort, at the invitation of the Afghan government, and with the broad support of the overwhelming majority of the Afghan people.
“The same things are being done to women and girls by warlords that the US is siding with in Afghanistan.”
That is a lie.
“(They are just as nutty fundamentalist as the Taliban.)”
That is a lie.
It’s a wonderful thing that the causes of human and women’s rights in Afghanistan (and Iran) have as passionate - and eloquent - an advocate as Terry.