The truth about Afghan women
Posted By: Judy W., 9/17/2021 8:33:16 AM
When I think about the West’s project to liberate Afghan women, my mind conjures a line from T.S. Eliot: “The last temptation is the greatest treason/to do the right deed for the wrong reason.” In Afghanistan, we engaged in a twenty-year, deliciously self-righteous, tragically ill-designed mission best expressed by flipping that sentence. We did the wrong thing, perhaps for the right reason. We wanted to develop that country and rescue Afghan women. Their lives were hellish, girls banned from school, women forbidden to leave their homes except in the company of a male guardian, vigilantes beating them with sticks if their burqa was too short.
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This is very sad, but I think the author is correct. The women the U.S. helped were a tiny minority that probably didn't need much help; they went on to benefit themselves and get lionized by westerners while very few helped any other Afghan women, whose life expectancy is 45 years. We should butt out of other people's cultures since we are incapable of understanding the least thing about them. (That is, the government and the elites. There may be private groups that are helpful.)