Right to rape: is that what we’re fighting for?
If you are the mother of a soldier fighting in Afghanistan, who wakes up every day with a cold pit in your stomach, and listens to every news bulletin with a dry mouth, there are very few things you can console yourself with in this most dangerous of presidential election weeks.
In such circumstances, all parents rely on crumbs of received wisdom: the reassurance that their sons and daughters, in holding back terrorism, and restoring international stability and security, are doing something very noble. That there can be no greater cause than installing democracy, and in particular freeing women from the yoke of oppression.… Seguir leyendo »