After is Worst Than Before

The Talibanization of Iraq shed some light on what really happened to women after the end of Saddam Hussein. With everything (propaganda) being shown to us about the terrible things women had to go through. With the way they had to dress to the limited rights they had, we in the United States were in horror of the way women were treated.
It doesn’t seem probable that women would be treated worst after the fall of Saddam, being given the way he led the country. At least during his reign women were able to be educated and hold a job. Then once he was gone, the value of a woman declined greatly. They were no longer safe as well as they were under Saddam’s regime. It was no longer safe for them to walk the streets without the fear of being harassed if their clothing wasn’t “right.” That does not make any sense to me.
It’s very admirable of the Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq to be stepping in to help the women who might need it most. However there is so much more that needs to be done to change the deplorable treatment of women. It doesn’t seem fair that, as opposed to our western way of thinking, there are others in another part of the world who are living a third-class lifestyle: living in fear, poverty and male domination. Of course there is all of that we must live with as well but not of the caliber in Iraq. I think that more can be done to fight this oppression but in a better way than using bombs. Ideally if everyone had similar understandings of the values of a person, then maybe this problem would be less common. All I’m saying is that there has to be a change and it has to start inside.