Under the Taliban, All Are Victims

Re “3 Women Sent to Meeting on Afghan Rule,� Nov. 26: Since when have women been “granted rights to work� or to vote or do anything else? By whom? Men do not do the granting, just the excluding. No, women regained or reclaimed their right to work. A paltry three women among 26 in the delegation to Bonn? Perhaps we should grant men inclusion to talks only when they demonstrate that they can run their governments in a peaceful way. So far, their track record worldwide is dismal.

Naomi Stephan

Ojai

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Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks and others rightly condemn the forced seclusion, and sometimes rape, of women in Afghanistan (“After Bombs Must Come Civil Rights,� Opinion, Nov. 25). But why is so little notice ever given to the many Afghan men who have been executed, tortured and subjected to forced labor? George Orwell is proven right once again: Some victims are more equal.

Neil Steyskal

Washington