The REAL War on Women.

       We have the dubious pleasure of hearing Sandra Fluke, Hillary Rosen and Roseanne Barr wail about their perceived "War on Women" here in America. This, unfortunately, cheapens the phrase.

       The REAL War on Women is viciously underway elsewhere. As Mohammad Hamid of Reuters reports:

"About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned on Tuesday after drinking contaminated water at a high school in the country's north, officials said, blaming it on conservative radicals opposed to female education...'We are 100 percent sure that the water they drunk inside their classes was poisoned. This is either the work of those who are against girls' education or irresponsible armed individuals,' said Jan Mohammad Nabizada, a spokesman for education department in northern Takhar province. Some of the 150 girls, who suffered from headaches and vomiting, were in critical condition, while others were able to go home after treatment in hospital, the officials said...The Afghan government said last year that the Taliban, which has been trying to adopt a more moderate face to advance exploratory peace talks, had dropped its opposition to female education. But the insurgency has never stated that explicitly and in the past acid has been thrown in the faces of women and girls by hardline Islamists while walking to school. Education for women was outlawed by the Taliban government from 1996-2001 as un-Islamic."

       I won't penalize anyone for caring about what they perceive to be an important issue at home, but the folks I typically see get worked up over the perceived "War on Women" in America also make ultra-public shows of being bleeding hearts about unfortunate people in 3rd World nations. In that vein, then, let's not marginalize the acknowledgement of GENUINE tribulation and suffering from downtrodden women in 3rd World nations. Women in America are treated like royalty, by comparison.