I found your brief very compelling. I think it's very timely, because we are now reaching a critical point in the discussion. I don't like to disagree with my colleague from St. John's, but I don't think the discussions are ephemeral at all. In fact, I think they're very real. I believe that getting them out into the public is going to be a difficult task, but I think that these are very real questions.
These questions of the conflict between human rights, particularly women's rights, and some of the arguments stemming from religious ideology that seem to be deeply ingrained within the Taliban movement, are not theoretical differences. They are very real. You only have to look at the experiences of women in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime to understand how real these are.
Was CARE able to operate in Afghanistan at the time the Taliban was running the government?