Ludacris Leftist

studentsagainstwarchicago:

I love Afghan Moms. Amnesty International does not.

On May 20, 2012, Amnesty Inernational held a women’s rights conference in downtown Chicago at the Swissotel focused on post-war Afganhistan in 2014.  Secretary of State Madeliene Albright appeared on the panel (looking like a vulture next to an “amnesty international” sign, and was applauded for her role as one of the first female secretaries of state. what a joke.  her time in office is better known as the sanctions regime, when at least 5,000 Iraqi children died every month from lack of nutrition, water, and health care due to sanctions.  She is not a feminist.)

 The speakers answered only rhetorical questions. They repeated vague critique of gender roles in Afghanistan and anti-Taliban rhetoric to disguise, ignore, and minimize NATO’s atrocities against Afghan human rights as a blessing to all citizens of the nation.  

NATO says that their investments in violence eliminate terrorism.  As the pro-war rhetoric washes over the fact that there has never been a proposal for a peaceful method to keep the Taliban out of power.  (Are we funding the taliban? are we profiting from the process of manufacturing weapons?)

At the conference, amnesty international acted as a secretary for NATO, because when NATO forces leave Afghanistan in 2014, there is a risk of cultural regression into older, more oppressive gender roles that prevent Afghan women from education and mobility- insinuating that the united states acts as a mentor for Afghanistan.  Because politicians and sponsors that form NATO refuse to mention of the use of the mistreatment of Afgan civilians by NATO operatives, those who speak out comprise an opposing organization