Afghanistan: Obama drops the human rights case, but where does that leave us? - Michael Hastings - The Hastings Report - True/Slant
Dec. 2 2009
A former U.S. official and friend emailed me this afternoon, noting that Obama “didn’t mention women’s rights” once in his speech last night on Afghanistan. This friend thought that was a bad thing. Glenn Greenwald makes the same observation, but says it’s actually good that Obama has dispensed with “the propagandistic pretext that we are fighting in Afghanistan in order to deliver freedom and democracy to that country and to improve the plight of Afghan women.” GG continues:
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A former U.S. official and friend emailed me this afternoon, noting that Obama “didn’t mention women’s rights” once in his speech last night on Afghanistan. This friend thought that was a bad thing. Glenn Greenwald makes the same observation, but says it’s actually good that Obama has dispensed with “the propagandistic pretext that we are fighting in Afghanistan in order to deliver freedom and democracy to that country and to improve the plight of Afghan women.” GG continues:
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