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Bush plans to divide Iraq into three parts Premium, regular and unleaded. This central zone, including Baghdad, is to be administered by career foreign service officer 21 Ambassador Barbara K. Cole was bombed by terrorists there in 2000, killing 17 sailors. Ambassador Bodine 23 survived amid flying bullets as a passenger aboard a skyjacked airliner in 2001. In 1999 she negotiated for hours to release three Americans kidnapped in Yemen. An American diplomat with a taste for danger and an ambition to advance the cause of Arab women, as she has been described, Bodine was born in St. She has also served as Dean of Professional Studies at the State Departments Foreign Service Institute and as the Department of States Acting Coordinator for Counter-terrorism. She is author of the 1993 study Patterns of Global Terrorism. You might think that a professional of Ambassador Bodines immense experience, skill and intelligence would be welcomed as the new Mayor of Baghdad (as she already is being called) in Iraq and on Capitol Hill alike. Iraq, like the rest of the Arab world, is a land of machismo marinated in high-test testosterone. If anything, Saddam Husseins Iraq accorded more rights to women than Taliban Afghanistan or paternalistic Saudi Arabia. The 25 two heads of Saddams biological warfare program, Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash and Dr. But Iraq is also a land of 26 150 tribes subdivided into 27 2000 clans, all of them cemented by male bonding and a macho culture. Bodine understands that men in this culture are unaccustomed to taking orders from a woman. She has a proven track record of success in Yemen, Kuwait and as an under-diplomat in Iraq. A medical professional who speaks fluent Arabic and Persian, Balsam has witnessed behind closed hospital and clinic doors the warped impulses that arise from Muslim sexual segregation and misogyny and that explode as female sexual mutilation, wife-beating, honor killings, rage and terrorism in many Muslim males. It is no coincidence, explains Balsam, that Osama bin Laden was born of a soon-to-be-cast-off concubine as one of his fathers 53 children, or that Muhammad Atta left instructions before flying an airliner into the World Trade Center that no woman was to attend his funeral or touch his body. Perhaps it is no coincidence that Saddam Husseins father and uncle died before Saddam was born, leaving him to be raised motherless by a male relative in the violent streets of Tikrit, home of the legendary Kurdish warrior Saladin. Or as a soldier in this conflict, ordering his troops to hide behind women? The details and insights in Balsams 250+ page book are truly eye-opening. The most extreme and twisted male Islamists will be horrified by the sight of a strong woman like Ambassador Bodine ruling the heartland of Iraq from Baghdad. Imagine the ideas that her presence might give to the wives and mistresses these men have heretofore been able to dominate. If women can become liberated and equal in these cultures, the roots feeding Arab terrorism will mostly wither and die. Ambassador Barbara Bodine by both her example and her ability is a brilliant choice to accelerate the liberation of women in Iraq and adjoining nations. You might think that liberals and feminists here in the United States would rejoice that President George W. At most, she expects Leftist feminists to condemn Bodine with faint praise with a punchline of criticism. For the same reason they refuse to allow a full Senate vote on Miguel Estradas nomination as the first Hispanic to the highest appeals court in the land. He is not a Leftist, and therefore Leftists want him and anybody else who refuses to be their puppet destroyed or enslaved, including 29 Muslim women. As McElroy notes, Bodine has served under Reagan, George Bush Sr. Bodine has also worked for Bob Dole and Henry Kissinger. And Democrats have 30 criticized her loyalty to Republican administrations before. The irony is that machismo Arab men in Iraq will probably accept Ambassador Bodine more graciously and honorably than will Marxismo Leftist feminists in the United States. Ponte hosts a national radio talk show Saturdays 6-9 PM Eastern Time (3-6 PM Pacific Time) and Sundays 9 PM-Midnight Eastern Time (6-9 PM Pacific Time) on the Liberty Broadcasting network (formerly TalkAmerica). A professional speaker, he is a former Roving Editor for Readers Digest. Academic Freedom Comes to Brandeis Moderate Muslims March in Phoenix The Wages of Exposing the Feminist Left Terrorists Cheer Kerry's Rhetoric Our Viet War Friends Betrayed by John Kerry A Marriage of Anti-American Hatred Mario Cuomo Scapegoats the Jews 58 ORDER THE FPM DIGEST TODAY!
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