sjones@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Susan Jones) (01/15/91)
Someone sent me an article, which I believe appeared in the Washington Post last month, and I thought it would be interesting to pass it on (though a withdrawal at this point doesn't seem the least bit likely): ========================================================================== "NOW Urges Gulf Withdrawal" Knight-Ridder Comparing the way Saudi Arabia and Kuwait treat women to South Africa's apartheid policy of racial separation, the National Organization for Women yesterday called for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Persian Gulf. "Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are despotic, clan-run monarchies," said NOW President Molly Yard. "Both... systematically oppress women. This is gender apartheid in its purest, most brutal form and should deeply offend all Americans." Yard expressed particular wrath at restrictions the Saudi monarchy has insisted be placed on female GIs sent to protect Saudi Arabia from possible Iraqi aggression. "We would be outraged if the administration sent American troops to defend South Africa from invasion, ordering black soldiers to 'respect the culture' by bowing their heads in the presence of white racists," Yard said at a news conference on the NOW resolution. "The oppressive regimes of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are not worth the sacrifice of American lives." ========================================================================== Susan
gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit) (01/16/91)
In article <6695@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> sjones@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Susan Jones) writes: >Yard said at a news conference on the NOW resolution. "The oppressive >regimes of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are not worth the sacrifice of >American lives." Sure. But the war is about oil, and defending these rotten regimes is the cheapest (in *American* lives) way to get that oil. :-( Follow-up to talk.politics.misc.