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Originally Posted by JoeP
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And our secret weapon? It is not drones. Quite the opposite. It is women. We should free them, educate them, give them power—put a Juliet in every village. They will change the world. This is why Boko Haram is so afraid of the girls and abducts them, why the Taliban will not educate them, why ISIL murders those in Western clothes and who think freely. Women. They are how the West will win. They are how love will prevail.
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But sadly, one of the things this ties together with is that the West isn't doing this very well. Education is being ground into the dirt and advances in women's rights are being reversed. In many countries. This guerra fria is being waged within the West as well, and victory is not certain. |
Originally published: June 27, 2016
Might as well be those long lost days where Babylon 5 was the thing to watch on prime time.
And you are so relentlessly English.