ABSTRACT
On November 17, 2001, Laura Bush, then first-lady of the United States, used the weekly presidential radio address to try to persuade the public that ‘‘the fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women’’ (2001). She goes on,
Afghan women know, through hard experience, what the rest of the world is discovering: The brutal oppression of women is a central goal of the terrorists. Long before the current war began, the Taliban and its terrorist allies were making the lives of children and women in Afghanistan miserable.
