Off Topic: You Know

[dogscoff]

Wounwort- point taken, but sexism can be found anywhere. More so in modern Iraq than modern usa, almost certainly, due largely to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism- which in turn is due to heightened Western/Middle East tensions. However, the very fact that the woman in your article is allowed to show her face in public, that she can work as a reporter, that she can go around town unescorted with a foreign stranger shows that these attitudes have not yet taken hold completely: That they are the exception- an ugly, very noticable exception- rather than the norm.

[General Woundwort]

I'd like to believe you're right, Dogscoff, but I have my doubts. He's right about one thing, though - it's a problem that military force alone won't be able to solve...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

What the women need is to become trained killers. Nothing like knowing the person your trying to abuse can break your neck before you even finish reaching for your knife.

[freduk]

Well, the Americans are known (among others) for being the only "western" country who still torture people, and of course they will do so; but I highly doubt it were the discussed soldiers orders to go and torture those Iraqi men, for most of them were just plain soldiers and rioting citizens (for what I've heard, I might be mistaken) who knew nothing.