Sacrificing Women for Peace / What’s Shocking?: The Cover of TIME Magazine
Yes, of course, sacrifices will have to be made. By whom? Women’s rights = “some concessions”? Being realistic means that we should we realistically get over the fact that women’s rights in Afghanistan are expendable if the issue of their rights gets in the way of us getting out of there?
Now, I am not advocating that we stay in Afghanistan forever. I’m not even saying that we should stay in Afghanistan through the end of the year. But I am advocating that whatever deal gets struck to bring this fucked up war to an end, I hope that women are part of that conversation and actually have a voice backed up by some sort of protection. I doubt it, though. I am (sadly) rather confident that they will be sacrificed, that “peace” will be trafficked through them instead of for them. There’s a long history of that all over the world.
