While our soldiers die in Afghanistan

Hamid Karzai, our supposed ally is defining half is population as mere sex objects for their husbands.

In a law that never saw the light of day in parliament, Hamid Karzai authorized husbands in Afghanistan to force sex upon their wives whenever they please. Such a ruling is appalling as
it takes away the free choice that sex ought to be. It is demeaning and forces women to be submissive to their husbands. It reduces them to "baby machines" and "sex objects."

Until this ruling came down, I was convinced that we were doing a truly noble mission in Afghanistan. We were weeding out the bad guys and helping out the good guys. Well turns out the good guys are only a lighter version of the bad guys. They are capable of being as repressive as the Taliban while they rely on NATO's protection.

While a return of the Taliban to power will be a bad thing and al Qaeda still needs to be rooted out, I am not convinced that the people we are helping in Afghanistan are agents of virtue themselves.

This ruling stinks. I am disgusted. Marriage is an equal institution. But clearly not in Afghanistan or a lot of other muslim countries.