The war against women

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com, or follow me on Twitter.

[Originally published on a weblog called “What Is Liberalism?”]

Ralph Peter’s sums up the best reason of all for America to go on fighting the war in Iraq, and the larger war, fought all over the world, against fascism. The Bush administration will some day disappear, thank god, but the war will still be there, and good people will need to fight it so that our liberal values can win:

The greatest social revolution in history is underway all around us: The emancipation of women. Advanced in our own society, elsewhere the battle for women’s rights lies at the heart of colossal struggles over the future of great religions and civilizations.

The Washington establishment would shrink from any such claim, but the Global War on Terror is a fight over the social, economic and cultural roles of women. The core issues for the terrorists are the interpretation of God’s will and the continued oppression of women. Nothing so threatens Islamic extremists as the freedom Western women enjoy.

The sudden transition of women from men’s property to men’s partners in our own country unleashed dazzling creative energies. In the historical blink of an eye, we doubled our effective human capital — and made our society immeasurably more humane. Our half-century of stunning economic growth has many roots, but none goes deeper than the expansion of opportunities for women.

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