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The war in afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the marines were really on this feminist mission. but today, all the women in all these countries have been driven back into medieval situations. women who were liberated, women who were doctors and lawyers and poets and writers and - you know, pushed back into this shia set against sunnis. the u.s. is supporting al-qaeda militias all over this region and pretending that it's fighting islam. so we are in a situation that is psychopathic.
-Arundhati Roy
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The War In Afghanistan Was Fought For

Arundhati Roy
The war in afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the marines were really on this feminist mission. but today, all the women in all these countries have been driven back into medieval situations. women who were liberated, women who were doctors and lawyers and poets and writers and - you know, pushed back into this shia set against sunnis. the u.s. is supporting al-qaeda militias all over this region and pretending that it's fighting islam. so we are in a situation that is psychopathic.
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