"Female Engagement Teams"--The Callous Use Of Women's Lives To Sell The War In Afghanistan
Feminist Peace Network / Fempeace
14-Oct-2010

It would be easy to pass  off this video from the New York Times as a human interest story, meant to give us a feel for what women in the military are doing in Afghanistan.  The caption that runs with the video reads,

Full-time “female engagement teams’” deploy alongside all-male infantry patrols in Helmand Province to try to win over rural Afghan women, who are culturally off-limits to outside men.

“Female engagement teams”? Guess we didn’t win too many hearts and minds killing innocent civilians, let’s try girl-talk instead?

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