Pink With A Tinge Of Yellow? They Probably Support US Deserters

Adrian MacNair: Code Pink's assault on common sense

Posted: January 13, 2010, 2:51 PM by NP Editor
Filed under: Full Comment,Adrian MacNair

You may have noticed this article in the Calgary Herald in December, about the antiwar organization “Code Pink”. After 7 years of opposition to the war in Afghanistan, they finally got around to actually visiting the country, whereupon they learned that the overwhelming majority of women there do not, in fact, support a withdrawal of foreign troops from their country, as had been assumed by Code Pink.

They expected feminists in Afghanistan to support their own demands, never realizing their position was counterproductive to the aims of women in Afghanistan. It would seem logical that a fundamental step for Code Pink, the Herald authors wrote, would be to consult the people who live in the country on whose behalf they advocate, in order to find out what their actions might mean for those affected by it. The article continued:

“Code Pink’s modus operandi is symptomatic of a western feminism that is not rooted in values of global solidarity, but is self-interested, insular and shamefully relativist. It is based on tribalism and rejects internationalist values. In this feminism, emancipation is only for western women — not for women in places like Afghanistan.”

Code Pink has a history of being on the wrong side of democracy, solidarity, and feminism, not only by undermining the mission in Afghanistan which fights against a brutally repressive Islamist group of gender apartheidists, but also in their support of anti-Israeli organizations and terrorist groups.

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