Kristof blasts Bush on international women's rights

Nicholas Kristof blasts the Bush administration's consistent hostility toward international programs to improve women's rights and living conditions. "The central moral struggle of the 19th century concerned slavery, and that of the 20th pitted democracy against Nazism, Communism and other despotic isms. Our own pre-eminent moral challenge will be to ease the brutality that kills and maims girls and women across much of Africa and Asia. Alas, this summer President Bush is putting the U.S. on the wrong side of the battle lines."

Posted on Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 11:17 PM