You are always right there to defend female genital mutilation, honor killings and forced marriages, aren't you? Oops -- make that a "progressive" enslavement and degradation of women. Sounds so much easier to swallow if you consider your support for the brutalization of women as something "progressive" , doesn't it?
And you always use the sad worn out CON game- where did I 'defend' any of the crap you rant about? typical CON deflection.
Fact is CONs could give a flying flip about ANY of that- it is just an excuse to degrade another culture that refuses to accept outsider interference. Did we go into the Middle or South East to 'defend' women's rights???
the 'inferior' culture was quite progressive until Westerners tried the latest go-round of 'civilizing' Afghanistan. the forced attempt to push 'equal rights' for women and the abolishing of religious laws by the Soviet created a backlash we are fighting today. back when these religious kooks fought the Soviets they were likened to our Founding Fathers by no less than St. Reagan. now of course they are in power and degraded as 'inferior'. :roll:
If you want to talk about FMG let's talk about our allies, the ones we embrace as 'good' Muslims. The Kurds in Iraq practice FGM and we don't trash them as 'inferior'. Honor killings??? Hell we do that here, and have you ever heard the term 'shotgun' marriage? You argue in degrees and with blinders firmly on.
I do enjoy some CONs 'defending' women while some others demand THEY get to decide many female reproductive issues. :roll:
Embrace the woman's rights to work in other nations but hold a nomination convention where that Right wing is mute and CON women are saluted for raising kids.
No Sir, what we don't like about their society is based on our rather capricious standards. We see their faults quite clearly but seem to ignore our own, from free and easy drugs to incredible rates of unwed teen moms, a culture that puts sex scandal women on a pedestal-make a sex tape and be famous. We attack their forms of government as corrupt but can we really look at our governments and power brokers in any better light?
What matters isn't their culture, as we have lost the hearts and minds of so many different cultures. No Sir, it is first and foremost does that culture even want our 'help', do they have a history of accepting such 'help'. Next is do we understand sometimes there is no 'good guy' to back, and all we or the Soviets did was stir the pot.
As long as we continue to make excuses for why we don't prevail and blame 'their culture' instead of our folly we are destined to repeat this hot mess over and over.
Accuse me of defending female mutilations, what a CON strawman.... :roll: