When she spoke to me at the Feminist Majority offices in Beverly Hills, she was preaching to the choir. What she wants is a lot bigger choir.

The Taliban was so egregious and so extreme that if women who were free to speak did not speak, we might as well say to the entire world, "No matter what you do to women, no one cares, just go right ahead." I promised the Afghan women that I am not one of those Americans who has no attention span

I would like somebody to tell me how they think a woman who didn't like the culture that oppresses her can do anything about it when she can't vote, she can't go anywhere, she has no say over her own body? There's a difference between silence meaning agreement and being silenced.

The war in Afghanistan was supposed to have changed things.

So what happened?

Four letters -- Iraq.