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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article on Hillary Clinton's own brand of "feminism" is pretty interesting. I especially liked this quote:

"But for proponents of this doctrine, perhaps no irony was crueler than seeing its namesake, then Secretary of State Clinton, smiling broadly in her trademark pantsuit as she walked the red carpet from her plane in Riyadh with the Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, in 2010. The moment brought to mind an incongruity no less extreme than if Frederick Douglass had been appointed ambassador to the Confederacy and found himself sipping tea and making small talk with Nathan Bedford Forrest. For, in Saudi Arabia, the subordination of women is as peculiar and pernicious an institution as was slavery in the antebellum South."

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/hillary-clinton-womens-rights-record-saudi-arabia-116160
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You know what's sad, OP?  You're now just casting about aimlessly, desperately cherry-picking any article where the headline and first paragraph seem to support your predetermined attack line on Hillary Clinton.

It's sad because if you'd actually read the whole article you linked, you'd learn a lot about these issues you're claiming are so important to you.  The article offers a richly detailed and nuanced analysis of all the difficulties and competing concerns that apply whenever the US tries to improve the dire plight of women in Middle Eastern countries.  In the end, it cautiously praises Hillary Clinton for the thoughtful way she nurtured the development of women's rights in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere during her time as Secretary of State.

[quote]The case of Saudi Arabia, then, provides an important lesson about the tradeoffs involved with public advocacy of women’s rights in the international arena—for Hillary Clinton, her successors at State and whomever the next president is. Too much public advocacy breeds defensiveness and even backlash among those one is trying to influence; too little public advocacy—too much silence—suggests to the world that these issues are not important after all and leads to despair among those one is trying to empower.

Clinton is silent apparently because she does not want the Saudi kingdom to stall or reverse ongoing, if slow-moving, progress for Saudi women. That in many ways is a justified stance, especially since the royals’ fall would be a catastrophe for Saudi women. ... In the case of Saudi women, Clinton has chosen a course that appears to be penny-foolish, but is surely pound-wise.[/quote]

Once again, you owe Hillary Clinton, and the people reading this thread, an apology.[/quote]

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