Women in Afghanistan

From what I have been hearing about Afghanistan women are still being treated like dirt even though President Bush proclaimed his outrage over the Taliban's oppression of women.  First lady Barbra Bush claimed "Because of our recent military gains in much of Afghanistan," she said, "women are no longer imprisoned in their homes."

But yet it still happens behind closed doors.  Women are arrested for talking to strange men,.  Sometimes women are arrested while talking to a male relative, for riding in a taxi with a male driver, or even saying hello on the streets.

I for one am glad to be an American "Land of the Free.  I would not want it any other way.