Oh? 

Well, now let's see. According to the Watson Institute at Brown University, civilian deaths in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2001 to date exceed 70,000 people. 

We don't know how many of those dead people were women but we can safely assume that a large percentage of them were. 

How many of those dead women would have been able to exercise "women's rights" if the Pentagon and the CIA had won the war? 

Answer: None of them. At the risk of belaboring the obvious, women who are dead cannot exercise "women's rights."

The interventionist dead-enders would say that those deaths were "worth it" because the women who survived the invasion and occupation would then have been able, with a U.S. military victory, to exercise "women's rights."

But where do the Pentagon and the CIA get the moral authority to sacrifice tens of thousands of  innocent lives — or even just one innocent life — in order that others will have the potential opportunity to exercise "women's rights"?