Friday 26 October 2012

Dust Off That Old 'Womens' Rights' Spin

As the chaos in Afghanistan descends to Nato/Isaf/MOD spinning on whether ISAF fatalities are green on blue or blue on green or green on green on blue, it's back to womens' rights as the pretext for the mission.
British Ministers: Women's Rights Key to Stable Afghanistan: ""Whilst a lot has been achieved and it would be wrong to underestimate that, building a viable state has not happened and is not really going to happen any time soon and yet that is supposedly the British government mission," said Bruce.  "So I think our view was rather than focus exclusively on that you really should concentrate on the things that you can achieve recognizing you may have to be fleet of foot and very flexible as the situation changes on the ground.""

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