My local paper ran a little feature story today. It's about a young Afghan woman who won a scholarship to attend high school and college in the West.
Now her family wants her to return home and marry her first cousin, to whom she was betrothed at age seven. This is not something she wants to do.
I remember, in the Zumwalt Navy, back in the Seventies, there was a stand down and we all had to spend a week attending assertive training classes. The trainers emphasized that we all have freedom of choice, all the time. They also emphasized that often those choices could result in a Court Martial, a long stretch at Leavenworth, and a Dishonorable Discharge.
This girl's choices would seem to involve outcomes even more grim than that, no matter what she chooses.
Bummer.
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