Part Two: Ann Jones, Author of "Kabul in Winter," Talks with OpEdNews

.1pt 0in;">An American military officer once advised me that I shouldn't bother with � ���"the trivial matter of women's fate.� �� � But I think that advice goes straight to the heart of what's wrong with American foreign policy. We, or rather our policy makers, think of war as serious business for big boys; women's issues are just an add-on we may get to by and by.

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But in fact � ���"women's issues� �� � are the central concerns of civil society: clean water, sanitation, food supply, shelter, education, health care, good governance, justice. Our policy makers put all these things on hold and busy their minds with more important stuff like troop strength, arms, and exit ramps. And all of our boy leaders are seduced by the heady business of playing commander in chief.

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Obama is only the latest and most sad. Is it any wonder that our country is always and ever at war somewhere on the planet, while a quarter of our American kids need food stamps to survive? The skewed priorities of our own government, in thrall to the military-industrial-congressional complex, have militarized not only our foreign policy but our domestic life as well.

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What are you doing now?

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