{"id":434,"date":"2002-04-11T04:52:22","date_gmt":"2002-04-11T11:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/04\/critics-of-the-taliban\/"},"modified":"2002-04-11T04:52:22","modified_gmt":"2002-04-11T11:52:22","slug":"critics-of-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/04\/11\/critics-of-the-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics of the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenlayne.com\/blogarchives\/week_2002_04_07.html#002052\">Ken Layne<\/a> notes Tom Tomorrow says that &#8220;leftists and feminists were among the few voices criticizing the Taliban before Sept. 11.&#8221; While there was some weak Taliban-bashing from these quarters, I personally compared the author of a bill eliminating pre-nuptial waivers of alimony to the Taliban in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bennett.com\/SB78.htm\">a letter to the California legislature<\/a> in March of 2001. The author I complained about, Sheila Kuehl, is a leftist and a feminist, which made the comparison all the more appropriate. Paternalism is where you find it, and it&#8217;s more common among the feminist left than anywhere else in American life.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Ken Layne notes Tom Tomorrow says that &#8220;leftists and feminists were among the few voices criticizing the Taliban before Sept. 11.&#8221; While there was some weak Taliban-bashing from these quarters, I personally compared the author of a bill eliminating pre-nuptial waivers of alimony to the Taliban in a letter to the California legislature in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/04\/11\/critics-of-the-taliban\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Critics of the Taliban&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-70","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}