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<title><![CDATA[Trading Afghan Women&#8217;s Rights for Political Power]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Common Dreams: Common Dreams: The proposed new Afghan law requiring (among other things), women to have sex with their husbands on demand and not leave home unescorted, has shocked the West. But for women in Afghanistan whose rights have always been bargaining chips to be given or taken away for political gain, it comes as no surprise. Despite the rhetoric from the Bush Administration in 2001 that &#8220;to fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women (Laura Bush),&#8221; Bush&#8217;s own military strategy set the stage for the new Taliban-like law today. In hiring the fundamentalist warlords of the Northern Alliance to defeat the Taliban, the US knowingly sacrificed women&#8217;s rights for political gain.]]></description>
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