What About Guarding Our Values?

Diana you must be mighty young! Don't you know that most American women opposed the Women's Liberation movement during its first few decades? As to women in Congress and legislatures, many of them were also "proxies for conservative men." This includes wives who ran for their deceased husbands' seats. Don't forget also that married women in the southern states usually could not own property in their own name just a few decades ago! The U.S. has successfully carried out projects like those in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past. They just take time and patience, both of which we as Americans often have in short supply. Japan had no experience with democracy prior to the U.S. occupation. South Korea was an agrarian dictatorship at...