A point of view... Barbara Walters of Television's 20/20 did a story on
gender roles in Kabul, Afghanistan, several years before the Afghan
conflict..She noted that women customarily walked 5 paces behind their
husbands.

She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk behind
their husbands. F rom Miss Walter's vantage point, despite the overthrow
of the oppressive Taliban regime, the women now seem to walk even
further back behind their husbands and are happy to maintain the old
custom.

Miss Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, "Why do you
now seem happy with the old custom that you once tried so desperately to
change?"

The woman looked Miss Walters straight in the eyes, and without
hesitation, said, "Land Mines."

MORAL OF THE STORY:
BEHIND EVERY MAN IS A SMART WOMAN.