Hitlary Clinton and her
grrrlfriends on an all-out World-Wide Feminist Crusade:
(You taxpayer dollars at work)
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<h1 id="yn-title">Hillary Clinton on Middle East Women's Revolution</h1>
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Lisa Miller Lisa Miller</span>
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<abbr title="2011-03-11T19:57:24-0800" ="timedate">FriMar11, 10:57pmET</abbr></div>
NEW YORK â€"
In
a rousing keynote speech at Newsweek and The Daily Beast's Women in the
World summit, Secretary Clinton doubled down on her commitment to
women's rights in the Middle East, unveiled a new State Department
partnership with all-girls colleges, and called pointedly for a future
female president.
When she heads to Egypt and Tunisia next week,
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
vows to "stand firmly for the proposition that women [in the region]
deserve a voice and a vote,"Â she told an audience Friday night at
Newsweek and The Daily Beast's Women in the World summit
at New York's Hudson Theater.
"More than that, they deserve to be able
to run for office, to serve as leaders and legislators, even president."Â
At "president"Â the secretary received a standing ovation. With her
smile, Clinton acknowledged the subtext: The women in the roomâ€"for they
were mostly womenâ€"were egging the secretary on to another presidential
run.
As secretary of state, Clinton has made the rights of women and girls
worldwide a central plank of her foreign policy. The absence of those
rights, she said in her speech, is an abuse of power and principle equal
to slavery or communism. But although women have been recent
revolutionaries in people's uprisings across the Middle Eastâ€"helping
to launch the protests in Tahrir Square via the Internet, for example,
and then marching there in surprising numbersâ€"they have largely been
ignored as nascent governments are being established.
"In Tunisia,"Â Clinton said,
"only two women have been appointed to the
transitional government, far fewer than served in the cabinet of ousted
president Ben Ali"¦. In Egypt, women are now shut out of the committees
and councils deciding the shape of Egypt's new democracy. The
Constitutional Committee has not a single woman member."Â
Clinton arguedâ€"backed by data from the World Bank, the World Economic
Forum, and Goldman Sachsâ€"that countries with poor records on women's
rights suffer economically and politically. Educating women, she said,
raises income levels in developing countries. Educated women have better
health, lower rates of infant and maternal mortality, and a greater
likelihood of getting a job outside the home. When women earn and keep
their own money, they spend more on their families and in their
communities than men do, "creating a positive impact on future
development."Â Especially in the Arab world, she said, citing the 2005 Arab Human Development Report, empowering women is a "prerequisite for an Arab renaissance."Â
Empowering women</font>, Clinton said, is a </font>"prerequisite for an Arab renaissance."Â</font></font>
That is why, Clinton said, she will support the efforts of women to have
a voice as new governments are being founded in Tunisia and Egypt. She
noted especially a petition launched by Egyptian women and already
signed by 60 organizations,
encouraging the Constitutional Committee "to
add a female legal expert to help guide the formation of a new
government."Â In Tunisia, Clinton said, female business leaders marched
last week "for greater economic opportunities and an end to political
violence."Â
Watch Secretary Clinton's full
address on the "unfinished business" of human history: The full
emancipation and equality of women.
Citing small successes since 2002 educating girls and women in
Afghanistan, Clinton said democracy cannot thrive if it doesn't include
women equally:
"Without involving women in peace, the peace will not be
sustained."Â Egypt and Tunisia are at a crossroads now.
Though Egyptian
women have made gains in recent years, with laws that grant them divorce
rights and the ability to convey citizenship to their children, they
have long had low literacy rates, high unemployment and low political
engagement. "The ability,"Â Clinton added, "of Egyptian and Tunisian
women to participate in the decisions that will shape their nations'
futures will go a long way toward determining whether democracy actually
takes root in North Africa."Â
Turning back to America, Clinton used her keynote address to unveil a new partnership between the State Department and the Seven Sisters collegesâ€"Barnard,
Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley, her
alma mater.</font> The partnership will kick off this fall with a conference of
"policymakers and innovative thinkers around the world,"Â said Secretary
Clinton, with the intent to build new global partnerships among women
activists and organizers.</font> "A lot of these women may not be known to many
of us,"Â said Clinton. "They are the ones making changes on the ground
right now. They are the ones who need our help, and we will stand with
them."Â</font>
Clinton closed by reminding her audience that democracies aren't built
overnight, and that
we in the liberal democratic West take our rights
for granted. Welcome to the revolution, where all of a woman's rights
are up for grabs.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/20110312/ts_dailybeast/12877_hillaryclintononmiddleeastwomensrevolution_1
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I just hope she finds the time to thank the
men that are fighting and dying for her cause...the same ones she and her countless ilk despise here at home and make laws that essentially render them neutered.
Also, another well-written and related article, from The Spearhead, with, as usual, many great comments:
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by </span>W.F. Price on <abbr ="published" title="2011-03-30">March 30, 2011</abbr>
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Conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg, writing for
National Review, has taken up the cause of spreading feminism across the world, presumably at gunpoint.
Goldberg has long been a war hawk, having been a passionate supporter of the invasion of Iraq, and once wrote:
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"Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick
up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just
to show the world we mean business."Â</blockquote>
Perhaps feminism, which has led directly to a great deal of state
violence against men in America, has been recognized as a useful tool in
pursuing these aims. If feminists are perfectly comfortable with
violent arrests of fathers and husbands to enforce feminist dictates
here at home, just think of how easy it would be to recruit their
efforts to convince people to snuff out foreigners' lives. As Jonah
argues, these jihadis must be a bunch of wife-beating sickos, so why not
drop some JDAMs and cruise missiles on their misogynistic heads?
Nothing could better demonstrate feminist triumph than the mutilated
corpses of patriarchal Muslims, right? Perhaps having female American
soldiers sexually humiliate them a la Abu Ghraib would be the icing on
the cake.
Oddly for a conservative (or perhaps not), Goldberg gloats over the fact that American men have been laid low in recent years:
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At a time when education matters more than ever, more
American women attend college than men. More women graduate, with better
grades and more advanced degrees.
[...]
These are the fruits of feminist success. And, as the father of a
little girl, I'm grateful for many of feminism's achievements. And as a
conservative, I'm delighted that so much of the energy and passion on
the right is fueled by women"¦</blockquote>
As an American, I'd be somewhat relieved if the feminists were to
divert their efforts to foreign wars. But that's a selfish sentiment,
and this is an international issue. As I know from very personal
experience, the effects of feminist policy transcend national
boundaries. This is an international issue that affects all of us, and
we have to address it as such.
So, while it isn't surprising to see war hawks donning the mantle of
feminism, it is important that men worldwide oppose any efforts to use
force against sovereign states in the name of feminism. To do so would
be to acquiesce to force being used against us in our own homes, as it
is.
Every bomb dropped and every bullet fired in the name of feminism is
one more indictment against the totalitarian, supremacist ideology.
Every death caused by feminist imperialism is a war crime against free
people.
It would be a searing indictment against us as a people were we to
justify state aggression on the pretext of interfering with the private,
family lives of a sovereign people. We should reject such efforts
forcefully, so as to avoid justifying the same action against us.
http://www.the-spearhead.com/2011/03/30/feminist-imperialism-the-new-crusade/
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Well said, Mr. Price.
Finally, a great interview with Gerald Celente that covers some of this as well:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/wp-content/uploads/193_Celente1.mp3
