Reply #59: "Apologia?" [View All]

[Robb]

...And what exactly do you mean "having this lady co-author" it?

Your implications are all over the place. She is not a doormat/stooge/whatever you're implying, and it's absurd to suggest it.

You simply refuse the possibility someone like her, who knows what's going on in Afghanistan, might disagree with you.

You can slam half the authorship -- rightly -- so you ignore or minimize the significance of the other half... Tell me, what if she were the only name on the paper? With what methodology would you dismiss the opinion then?

I don't buy everything in the article. But the parts I don't buy, I'm listening to and reconsidering, because Sherjan's name is at the bottom. I'm no ideologue.

I know a lot about AfPak, have friends and former colleagues in the middle of things at the moment. But she's sat down with the fucking shura to help girls and women. She gets all the rope she wants.


Edited to remove the word "actually" from "knows what's going on in Afghanistan," because it suggests more than is appropriate.