Well, it's back, and the clause legalizing spousal rape is gone. Now all husbands can do if their wives won't sleep with them, is deny them food until they do. Seriously. And according to the UK's Independent, the law still gives tacit approval to fathers marrying off their child daughters and has another clause that would absolve men of rape charges if they agree to marry their victim (I'm sure the victims of the crime would love that...).
Meanwhile on Friday, CNN's social networking maven, Rick Sanchez, was positively having the vapors over a report that the US might consider negotiating with elements of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Rick couldn't understand why the United States would even think about talking with the Taliban (missing the point, again, that we went into Afghanistan to fight al-Qaeda, not the Taliban).
C'mon Rick, is the Karzai government really that much of an improvement? Meanwhile, our top ally in the Afghan mission, the British are starting to question their involvement in Afghanistan now that their military death toll there has passed the number of British soldiers lost in Iraq. A recent poll found that 60% of Brits weren’t convinced that keeping troops in Afghanistan was in their national interest. I’m sure the revelations over the new rape law won’t help the UK government to make its case to stay.
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