Tragically, our diplomatic and defense policies in Iraq created the opposite: conditions in which up to two million widows are penniless; legions of women were killed by fundamentalists squads in Basra; thousands have been trafficked for prostitution; and Shari'a domestic law in which " women are worth - of men legally, and - of men socially," is embedded within the new constitution. The same war has left tens of thousands of American women soldiers broken physically, mentally, and spiritually from military sexual trauma instigated by fellow soldiers. Having the fortitude to acknowledge publicly that women are "the biggest losers" in our vainglorious militarist policies in Iraq and elsewhere would give substance and integrity to the National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security.
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