<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Feminist Philosophers]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[annejjacobson]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/author/jp12/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[&#8220;Know Thine Enemy&#8221;]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>The title is from an Op-Ed piece in today&#8217;s electronic version of the NY Times.  It is a  <a href="http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=8e9862a9f3a8216027ef2f9ecd1c3bc5345b4134">documentary</a> about the  US occupation of Iraq.</p>
<p>The occupation raises many feminist issues, and I&#8217;m not even tempted to try to give some simple statement of some of them.  But the  6+ minute documentary is well worth watching, even if you can just bear to watch some of it. A central and important conclusion it supports is that the invasion could not have worked, even if it had been well planned; the insurgency is enacted often by ordinary people who care about things such as honor/honour much more than the architects of the war understand even today.</p>
<p>Among the feminist questions raised is:  Whose are the  values  and who is paying the price?  There aren&#8217;t easy answers.</p>
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