From the Upper West Side
Comes the latest addition to our growing family of global correspondents:
Hi, Marc I just discovered your blog. I'm glad I did. And I couldn't agree more re: Mr. Berg. He says 'respect every human's need to live free and autonomously' and in the SAME FREAKING SENTENCE says 'respect the sovreignty of every state'. But it seems no one in the press wants to challenge this ridiculous and inherently contradictory statement. The Taliban was sanctioning the beatings, amputation and death of women for showing their face in public. Mr. Berg is against that. We "violate the sovreignty of the state" to drive the Taliban out. Mr. Berg is against that too. It's easy to spout mushy platitudes, but in the real world leaders have to make decisions that affect actual human beings. So which is it? Because you can't have it both ways. (And on a tangential note... where is the support from the feminist community for Bush's de facto liberation of thousands of Afghani women?) No father should have to bury his child. But I'm so sick of poorly reasoned and ideologically driven viewpoints being granted a mouthpiece and the veil of legitimacy simply because the people voicing them have suffered. Cheers and kudos. FM
Thanks, FM, that's about how I feel too!
