<"Feminists refused to touch this subject," writes Kay S. Hymowitz in New York's City Journal. "They have averted their eyes from the harsh, blatant oppression of millions of women, even while they have continued to stare into the Western patriarchal abyss, indignant over female executives who cannot join an exclusive golf club and college women who do not have their own lacrosse teams."

While the frontline feminist movement has sometimes discarded principle for politics (i.e. Clinton), it is only fair to point out that outfits like the National Organization for Women were condemning the Taliban's treatment of women in Afghanistan even before 9-11.

It may be too much to ask of them though to translate this opposition to tyranny into support for Bush's efforts to end it. Now maybe if Clinton were still President...