34373 Somehow I'm not surprised that I am the first to rate this short film. This film reveals a lot missed by the mainstream media, which is currently busy feeding conspiracy fools the food they want... blood, US failures and folies, bombs, more blood, and how evil Bush is. Women under Taliban rule in Afghanistan had a 200% higher childbirth mortality rate than women in the US. Women were tortured for trying to sell bread in Kabul to feed themselves and their famillies. Women were not allowed to be educated. All of these things are now in the past. Women are free. Most disturbing about this lack of feedback on such an extraordinary film is the lack of feminist praise for the US's work in Afghanistan. Women are voting, removing veils, working, going to school, and everything else the feminist movement has griped about in the region for years. Perhaps today's feminists aren't so woman-oriented after all.... perhaps they're just "liberal"-oriented. Progress, not dictatorship eltatero 2005-03-09 17:28:52 2005-03-09 17:28:52 5 I find it aggregious that so many people whom elect themselves as knowledgeable of the history of the middle east, and in this case Afghanistan, do not bother to do a little sleuthing on Google to recall that it was America that put the Taliban into power... and when they refused to sign an agreement with the oil company that their present "elected" president, Hamid Karzai worked for (!), THEN it suddenly became important to "liberate" Afghanistan. It's also aggregious that SO-CALLED "womens' lib" organizations would promote war in these countries where, again, a little- just a LITTLE- bit of brain work would have one recall that war promotes, besides wonton murder, terrorizing violence, violent and unchecked RAPE by soldiers upon the women of a conquered land along with the promotion of the cheap trade of young, "liberated" girls into the bondage of prostitution- you're full of crap if you think otherwise! eltatero and others akin in thought have made up a fantasy world around themselves... mindfucked by their history books and close-minded ideas hidden behind terms like "liberal". Perhaps someone kicking your door in, M-16 in hand and a hard-on for the girls in your house is YOUR idea of "liberation"... not for anyone with a brain, though... anyone that really contemplates the polemics of war... that certainly hasn't been the womens' organizations whom supported the wars... and subsequent rapes. ...how we forget... 1 UmarOMC 2006-02-10 00:43:32 2006-02-10 00:43:32 Only an idiot would actually try and stomp out any positive results of policies you do not agree with on the sole basis that the person you voted for lost in an election. It's over and you lose and we win. Wackjobs are blowing up schools because girls are going... get real man. I use the term loosely. And yeah, we shouldn't have to kick in doors with M16's but those idiots won't even stand and fight in uniform without covering their faces because that is what criminals do. When you roll up to a bank during a robbery and one guy has a mask on and the other a uniform, you go to the freedom fighting bank robber and be his friend... please. Good for those chicks over there, now they can get implants and have abortions. Hey Umar get real Telephone Toughguy 2007-04-09 20:34:53 2007-04-09 20:34:53 4 3 3.33