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...SEWA and similarly focused organizations throughout the developing world are working toward widespread social change through women’s empowerment. Improving the plight of half the world’s population, especially through education and vocational training, is increasingly seen as one of the most effective ways of fighting poverty, disease, and even religious fundamentalism. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a point of visiting women’s organizations and talking with women about their lives during her summer trips to India and Africa. When she addressed members of SEWA in Mumbai in July, she noted...
...Ultimately, the best approach is simply to allow women throughout the world to the freedom and ability to help themselves. As Clinton said, “The most reliable forum of economic and social progress is the self.” The more women are able to fight discrimination and think critically, the more they can contribute to solving the world’s problems. All that needs to be done is to tap into the world’s largest population of unused talent...
Similarly, in Afghanistan, bin Laden's erstwhile stomping ground, the fight against the U.S. is being waged by the Taliban, which may once have been an ally of al-Qaeda but now exists entirely independently of bin Laden's movement and will ultimately make its strategic decisions based on its national interests. The sobering reality for bin Laden is that even among those dedicated to resisting the U.S. and its allies, his ideology of global jihad against the "far enemy" (the U.S.) has failed to supplant the more pragmatic Islamist movements such as Hamas, Hizballah and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood...
...focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance," he told the New York Times, suggesting that the goal was to reach a point at which the specter of al-Qaeda "isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life...
...health-care-reform fight...