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Bush: Stay in Afghanistan for women’s sake
April 01, 2011
Categories: Fox News

Former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush said in separate interviews with Greta van Susteren on Fox News Thursday that the plight of Afghan women should be at the forefront as the U.S. tries to untangle itself from the Afghan war.

Both were speaking as part of the second annual conference of the U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council, a public-private partnership set up by President Bush and President Hamid Karzai in 2002 to help Afghan women.

While the former first lady framed her argument mostly in the language of global economic development, arguing that “economies can’t succeed unless all people can be involved,” the former president framed his argument more in terms of a neoconservative foreign policy.

“My concern of course is that the United States gets weary of being in Afghanistan and says, ‘It’s not worth it, let’s leave’ and Laura and I believe that if that were to happen, women would suffer again,” he told van Susteren. “And we don’t believe that’s in the interest of the United States or the world to create a safe haven for terrorists and stand by and watch women’s rights be abused.”

He later added that part of the mission of the George W. Bush Institute, which was hosting the conference in Dallas, “is to remind people that isolationism will end up subjecting certain people to horrors that I don’t see how our country can live with that kind of decision.”



unhappycamper comment: What a disgusting pair of human beings.