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take a backseat to financial interests. China, anyone? Or so-called national security interests (oil, intelligence). Pakistan? Saudi Arabia? Russia? Basically, if we need something from another country, we aren't going to insist too loudly that they conform to internationally recognized standards of human rights, let alone do anything to enforce them. And if we don't need something from another country, we may loudly insist that they conform to those standards, but we are extremely unlikely to do anything to enforce them. Rwanda? Darfur? And it's not just women's programs that are being cut as a result of the war, but programs designed to help the poor generally. What surprises me is that Ms. Magazine is at all surprised by this.
but i don't see what the fundamental connection would be between oil specifically and women speciically. It seems more like profits over people combined with a lack of interest in active intervention on behalf of women. I suppose that could be the point, but there doesn't seem to be much active intervention on behalf of anyone, unless you could "freeing" Iraqis from Saddam.
Beginning with the implicit support of the Taliban in Afghanistan -- perhaps the most antiwoman regime the world has seen -- Burk shows how, prior to 9/11, the Bush administration was willing to turn a blind eye to that regime's repressive policies in hopes of gaining rights to a proposed pipeline.
Holy confusion between administrations, Batwoman.
I was involved in the Feminist Majority campaign to get THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION to stop that Unocal pipeline project back in 1997.
It was the Clinton administration that first established the American policy of turning a blind eye to the Taliban when it came to Big Oil.
I know the 2000 election was controversial, but it seems like the year the election occurred has now become part of the controversy.
But I do that too. I move the date of that election all the way back to 1996 sometimes, when I feel like blaming Bush for policies that actually originated under Slick Willy.
