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Well you have helped me just by being a thoroughly decent being.I kinda thought that Afghanistan was a bit about that.Not that womens rights are high on the agenda, but the USA and to some degree the UK understands that youth bulge (10 babies per woman Afghanistan) and in Pakistan Palestine etc will continue to cause violence because there will be an excess of young men.they are breeding warriors for the warlords armies like Nazi breeding programs. I think we (in the West)and yes us as people who attempt creativity should proffer creative solutions.How about.. we don't deal with blokes at all!! when they are all murdering bastards.Create female safe havens! Promote polyandry in agrarian areas.All bonkers I know but it is as if the men of violence continue to set the agenda and the terms for discussion when they should really be ignored .How about a secular safe haven? I wrote a poem called FGM part rant part nasty humour. I don't know if we should ever interfere in youth bulge countries.The chap who developed theory says we should just wait it out. We would be justified certainly but not likely to make things better . I do think we should be tooled up to defend ourselves well wherever we have to do it.I would have enjoyed a gunboat sailing forcefully towards Khartoum, but that is just me .We don't seem to be carrying a big enough stick to enable us to avoid using it if you see what I mean.So we have only economic influence and it all goes into the wrong pockets when we try it.

My knowledge of history is excellent thanks K.You appear to have no knowledge of a lot of things including the study of human nature and any kind of science.Your view always stems from an anarchist/communist perpective in spite of any evidence. It is a bit like the smacking debate.No one wants to smack a child or sail a gunboat anywhere ,but the child or the fundamentalist idiots in Khartoum have to believe you might do it.They have to take you seriously if you have any hope of stopping them behaving badly and dangerously. Actually come to think of it a lot of these people probably have the IQ of a toddler and the emotional maturity of one too, although they run around in big grown up bodies.We see an adult and expect a capacity to think like an adult but they actually don't have it.Their brains were formed in famine circs a lot of the time and they were not socialized to contain their impulses but just the reverse. We would be well advised to understand this and not expect them to be able to think which we seem to. With less primitve teens you threaten to remove their laptops ipods etc,economic sanctions. It is still the case, it is sad but true.We still have to have a big stick in order to not have to use it. In the UK for instance we should have prosecuted the Imam and his unpleasant relatives under stalking laws and then deported them for threatening and attempting to kill his apostate daughter.A few things like this publicly done would send a pretty good message about what is acceptable,so why dont we do it? It might infringe his human rights?As opposed to her rights to stay alive? We should not have 30 different languages in classrooms.In this way no one can learn and Mother tongue teaching is Bollo...You cannot employ 30 different translators for one child each across the land. We should do what other countries do heave them all out into English(or whatever is appropriate) classes until a certain level is reached and education can take place. Perhaps the world would be a better place K if there was a greater balance between the sexes.Lets face it blokes are doing a truly bang up job.Take female perspective out and you impoverish the whole debate.

Yes indeed that is what they do in other places.But you do need to immerse them in a way that helps them to pick it up and this needs to be done without swamping them or holding back everyone else.Just sticking them in to sink is not on.