Throwing women under the bus

YESTERDAY my colleague in Washington defended Barack Obama's tepid defence of women's rights in his Cairo speech. He noted that a few years ago Karen Hughes, a Bush aide, tried to talk up the subject on a PR tour of the Middle East. She didn't get anywhere, so why push it?

I think this is dubious reasoning. Is America supposed to give up on any challenge if the Bush people couldn't tackle it? [Economist.com] Read more