Why Afghan Women Have Been Abandoned: The Power of Belief

A woman with a child stands in a queue along with others to submit their passport applications at an office in Kabul on July 25, 2021. Sajjad Hussain/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

A sentence in an editorial about Afghanistan in the French newspaper, Le Monde, made me sit up. Titled “The Cruel Abandonment of Afghan Women,” it said: “Their progress [that of the Taliban] since the United States completed its military withdrawal on July 3rd bewilders the experts.”