A Line in the Sand

There is a story in today's news that I hope is an April Fool's Day joke. According to the story, the government of Afghanistan is considering a law that would make it illegal for a woman to have sex with her husband or to leave the home without her husband's permission. It would also grant custody rights to fathers and grandfathers.

I know that Afghanistan is their country and that their ways are different than Canadian ways, but if this actually becomes the law over there, then I think Canada has no option but to immediately cease any and all support of the government. In other words, our government should immediately withdraw all of its troops and end all of its financial aid to the government.

If Afghanistan wants to go back to the Taliban's way of doing things -- and I will be the first to agree that they have the right to choose to do so -- they can do so. All that I am saying is that they can do it without the blood and treasure of my country.