Posted by Jost on September 26, 2006, at 23:25:59
In reply to Re: It is heartwarming » Declan, posted by tealady on September 25, 2006, at 20:31:46
That's not surprising to me. I wish we had simply focused on making Afghanistan a place that was much better than it had been-- for everyone. Which I believe we could have done. despite much of the same.
Just yesterday, one of the most senior women in government was assassinated there. (From the NY Times)
"A senior Afghan official specializing in women’s rights was gunned down here on her way to work on Monday morning by suspected Taliban gunmen. It was the highest-level assassination of a woman in Afghanistan in the five years since the Taliban were ousted from power.Safia Amajan, 65, had served as chief of the women’s affairs department in Kandahar Province for five years, working for women’s rights and education and vocational training. A former teacher and high school principal, she was well known and much liked in Kandahar."
Jost
I find this profoundly dismaying. Worse than that really.
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