For Afghan Women, ‘Glass Is Half Full’

As the United States prepared to invade Taliban-ruled Afghanistan 15 years ago, then-first lady Laura Bush took over her husband's weekly radio address to tell the American people that part of the reason for going to war after the attacks of September 11, 2001, was to liberate Afghan women from the brutality that had been forced on them by the extremists' regime. As the war against the Taliban grinds on, Afghan women are still largely treated as property and barely a week goes by...

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