I think you should check yours. When the Taliban ran things, the Afghan lady -- the subject of your story would have been -- beheaded -- if the Taliban were feeling generous -- not arrested. I know that for a fact. I heard it first hand from Afghan women I spoke to when I was there. I know why I was there. I don't think it. Women's rights will continue to be a struggle. I never said it was perfect. But it is better than when I first got there. It will get better with time. I guess I neglected to mention that I am a female. I am there to fight terrorists -- mainly the Salifist terrorist which is the fastest growing type. Salifists want a Caliphate. Goodle Khalifa and follow the stories there. (Also books are good, check out Inside the Al Queda, Jihad vs. McWorld and every book Karen Armstrong has ever written so that you get a clear picture of the difference between a true Moselem and what is meant by an Islamist.) Al Queda are in the Salifist group. The Al Queda backed the Taliban. The Taliban swooped into a town, took girls as young as 10 in "temporary marriages" and brutalized them. Oh by the way, since women could not be doctors or hold any job of any type and because Women could not be seen by a male doctor, the girls who could not be smuggled to see the Women doctors who ran practices in secret out of their homes, died horribly and painfully from their brutalizations. Stories like this were told to me by Afghan women in Afghanistan. One woman told me her daughter's story to explain why she wished her then 13-year-old daughter had died. Also, since you are into Women's issues, google "honor killing." Al Queda are also big into that. There is nothing more compelling than hearing and seeing things first hand from those people who are intimately impacted. I didn't read it. I didn't google it. It wasn't some press conference content. There were no cameras around. Trust me, I am clear on why I was there and why I am going back. I do not invalidate your opinion. Your opinion is formed by what you see and hear and experience. My opinion is formed by those same forces. All I am saying is that in the interests of all things American let the recruiters recruit. I am sure there is room for all points of view particulary on a college campus.