What matters is that we won't "improve" those cultures by war, on the contrary, we'll make things worse by placing people on a tectonic shift. Albrecht von Haller said something that I think is relevant:
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions, overlap
And if the overlap is produced by war, the suffering is far more intense. When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
i was pointing out that it is difficult froma western outside perspective differentiate betweent hose areas, so bombing for outside to change the situation..or even any intervention is well... difficult.. really difficult.
It is much more easy in Saudi Arabia where women status is, well almost unviersally anti-mythical and symbolically enforced... but even there.. I would not bomb..frnakly in those cases of ogovernment imposing their elites vision like Saudi Arabia Sudan, Congo... frankly I do not know the solution.. and I do know there is a huge problem. I wa spointing out that in those situations is much worse than in Afganistan.
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
