Laura Bush, who demonstrated America's inability to make friends in the Middle East by getting heckled in Jerusalem, was recently quoted during her trip to the region - which is already on its way to becoming a legendary public relations disaster - that Arab countries ought to allow more women to exercise more freedom in the economic, political, and social lives of their countries.
How interesting! Recently, a report came out evaluating the influence of women in different countries, and in terms of influence and power among women, the United States ranked seventeenth. (The Nordic countries tended to dominate the top of the list; Finland, if I'm not mistaken, is number one.) Still, number seventeen ain't bad in a world of two hundred or so countries, right? Actually, among our peers - that is, Western industrialized democracies - we ranking shockingly and embarrassingly low. We're pretty much at the bottom in women's rights in that context. And there's still no chance that the Equal Rights Amendment will ever be resubmitted to the states.
Did I happen to mention that Laura Bush pretty much gave up her career as a librarian - wow, there's a stereotype-breaking job - after she got married?
Come home, Mrs. Bush - you've done enough damage abroad already!
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