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I am asking about Afghanistan after the western world pulls out. Do you think that the problem that females will face once the Taliban return in force will be protested? Now I am not advocating that we remain there, that will not work and I am against it. What I am asking is where will be the voices that are now being raised be? Where were the voices when the senseless murders took place at the boarding school in Nigeria? Where were and are the voices for the thousand of children killed and being killed in Syria? How say the protesters at the University of Michigan at Dearborn and the University of Illinois in Chicago over a presentation of Muslim women speaking out against the oppression of women in their faith. Maybe the elitist are starting to see the problems; the Dorchester Hotels protest. Has the western world began to wake up to the problem of Islamic fundamentalist? Maybe and maybe not, look at the lashing out against Tony Blair on his stance on Islamic extremist by David Georgy of Meet the Press.
If you're not hearing the voices protesting these things or aware of who will still be working on behalf of women in the region, you're not paying attention.
My cousin will still be doing the refugee resettlement work she does with the UN, whether or not a bunch of heavily armed American kids who don't even speak the language - let alone care about protecting women from religious extremism - are gallivanting around the country shooting at people.
She was doing it before the US invasion, she's done it throughout, and she'll still be doing it long after. Her, and people like her, really make a difference in the lives of women in conflict zones.
Soldiers just create conflict zones, which always increase the day to day risk in the lives of women and girls.