>>>>>>in exchange for the freedom to be recognized as a human being with rights equal to everyone else, or the certainty that the rest of my life will be lived as not even a secondary citizen with no rights and no freedom whatsoever, under the total control of the men of my society in what amounts to nothing short of medieval slavery.  >>>>>>Do you really believe that when and if US forces leaves those countries that the men there will treat their women any different than before..I doubt it, maybe in a few generations time but not in my lifetime