Well, here's a surprise: Gayle Tzemmach Lemmon sees tension between Clinton's commitment not to "abandon" Afghanistan's women to the Taliban and the Administration's withdrawal policy:
At a Senate hearing the day after President Obama's June speech announcing the beginning of America's troop drawdown in Afghanistan, Clinton argued that "including women and civil society" in the peace process "is not just the right thing to do; it is the smart and strategic thing to do as well." Under questioning from Sen. Barbara Boxer Clinton agreed that "it is important that (women) have more seats at the table" in the High Peace Council, the body established by Afghan president Hamid Karzai to promote reconciliation with the Taliban, than the nine out of 70 currently allotted them.
Yet while Clinton's commitment to keeping women front and center is clear, the White House's interest in deploying political capital on Afghan women's behalf is far less certain. Women received no mention in Obama's December 2009 West Point speech announcing the ‘surge' of 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, and the President referred to them only once in last month's address regarding the withdrawal timeline for those same forces.
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