On a more serious note, while we are busy making little ones out of big ones in Kabul, would we not be well advised to network the hundreds of thousands of free Muslim women who can be found in Europe, the US, etc., and have them start a whispering campaign among their sisters in Afghanistan, and other countries who oppress women in the name of Allah?

The Trojan Women (Aeschylus, I think) tells the story of women stopping war by witholding their ...er...support, as it were. I can se eit now -- terrorists resigning from their cells en masse because they couldn't get any!!

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