Women can starve then?

http://www.sodahead.com/blog/133213/afghanistan-husbands-can-starve-wives-if-they-refuse-sex/

Amazing. And our soldiers are in this Country, defending the people who are making these laws.

Not forgetting supporting a regime, which has increased heroin production six or sevenfold.

Bring our brave lads home, Stop The War Coalition was right all along.

Who would have thought that?

Not the millions who went on marches surely?

I dont know the answers.
I do know that more and more young lads are not comming home....ever.

I also know that if I lived in that Country, with the ridiculous law that says women wont be fed, if they refuse their husbands sex, I would be skin and bone.

You certainly wouldn`t get an asprin and sympathy.

Its a step backwards, in ANY society, to enforce such a rule. It just shows how very disrespected women are in that culture.

Syl wrote:Its a step backwards, in ANY society, to enforce such a rule. It just shows how very disrespected women are in that culture.

Thats Sharia Law for you !!!!!!!! Thank the Lord for Emmeline Pankhurst !!!

how backwards thinking afgans can treat woman like animals,

And we're fighting for these ppl so their women can live like that, UNBELIEVABLE.

Yes the PC brigade are not impressed

"There was a review process - Karzai came under huge pressure from all over the world to amend this law, but many of the most oppressive laws remain," Rachel Reid, the Human Rights Watch representative in Kabul, told the BBC.

"What matters more to Karzai is the support of fundamentalists and hardliners here in Afghanistan whose support he thinks he needs in the elections."

Women's groups say its new wording still violates the principle of equality that is enshrined in their constitution.

It allows a man to withhold food from his wife if she refuses his sexual demands; a woman must get her husband's permission to work; and fathers and grandfathers are given exclusive custody of children.

From

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8204207.stm

206 UK soldiers killed supporting this corrupt government.

That's just numbers to the guys at the top Vili, acceptable wastage of the population they probably call it.

True Lily Pad: I don't imagine our gung-ho politicians lose any sleep over it.
Or even think about it.

How hard it must be to bear the burden of command, isn't there a phrase that used to descride the detachment of a leader from his men

Lily-Pad wrote:How hard it must be to bear the burden of command, isn't there a phrase that used to descride the detachment of a leader from his men

The phrase, "Dont do as I do, do as I say" comes to mind.

Its always been the same. What was the young soldiers, mostly teanagers, called in the 2 world wars??

"Cannon fodder" I know its a completely different situation here, but every life is someones Son, Dad, husband,brother.

True Syl, but they are rarely the sons of the politicians who start the wars.

Syl wrote:

Lily-Pad wrote:How hard it must be to bear the burden of command, isn't there a phrase that used to descride the detachment of a leader from his men

The phrase, "Dont do as I do, do as I say" comes to mind.

Its always been the same. What was the young soldiers, mostly teanagers, called in the 2 world wars??

"Cannon fodder" I know its a completely different situation here, but every life is someones Son, Dad, husband,brother.

The 'dont do as I do' is classic politikspeak.

Remember back to basics from the Tories helped by Cecil Parkinson and Tim Yeo? :wavingsmily:

Still the phrase they follow, avidly. Ime thinking Hazel Blears. And a million others.

nL have always been neo-Tories