American journalist Barbara Walters of Television's 20/20 did a story
on gender roles in Kabul ,
Afghanistan, several years before the Afghan conflict. She noted that
women
customarily walked 5 paces behind their husbands.

She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk behind
their husbands.

From Ms. Walter's vantage point, despite the overthrow of the
oppressive
Taliban regime, the women now seem to walk even further back behind
their
husbands and are happy to maintain the old custom.

Ms. Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, "Why do
you now
seem happy with the old custom that you once tried so desperately to
change?" The woman looked Ms. Walters straight in the eyes, and without
hesitation said, "Land mines."


*MORAL OF THE STORY*: BEHIND EVERY MAN IS A SMART WOMAN