From Where I Stand

The following is from a Catholic paper's site. The writer is discussing the reception Karen Hughes received from the women in the Middle East. The women basically told her to go home and clean up her own house before telling them how they should clean theirs. Amen to that. From Where I Stand by Joan Chittister, Setpember 30, 2005: "From where I stand, I figure we can stop claiming that force is democracy and forget about pushing international drivers' licenses for women and do what the women said: We can come home and take care of our own flagging cities, our deprived and uninsured poor, our overtaxed middle class and our declining school systems. Maybe then, if being American is such a good thing, people will want more than our cars. They might really want to be like America again."