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Misogynists in US State Department
Published in The Egyptian Gazette on 22 - 06 - 2013

There must be a group of misogynists in the US State Department. They cruelly abuse the code of gendre equality by posting women in particular in ‘the most dangerous areas' across the world. The latest victim of abusers of women human rights in the US State Department is the new US ambassador to Libya Deborah Jones. More cruelly is that Jones succeeds Chris Stevens' who was killed on September 11 last year during an attack by Islamists on the US consulate in Beni Ghazi.
The attackers used military-grade weapons and RPGs. Investigations substantially indicated that the attackers had a good knowledge of the locations of the secret safe house sites. Ms Jones arrived in Libya and assumed her office, although the perpetrators of the attack on the US consulate remain unknown.
American and Libyan investigators have failed to hold any of many militant groups in Libya or outside it who are accountable for the killing of Stevens.
More injustices must have been done to Ms. Jones by breaking up her family union between Libya and Pakistan: her husband is Richard Olsen the current US ambassador to Islamabad. Unless any of them has heaved a deep sigh of relief that his/her partner has been posted thousands of miles away, Jones' family separation will definitely have negative implications on the US interests in Libya in particular.
Each of the couple will be normally concerned more with the safety of his/her partner than the daily developments beyond the fence of the US embassies in Libya and Pakistan. Said to be a fluent speaker of Arabic with an attractive accent, Jones has served much of her career in US embassies in the Arab countries, such as Iraq, Jordan and Syria.
The new US ambassador to Libya may find solace in contacting – or visiting – regularly her counterpart in Cairo Ann Patterson. The decision-making misogynists in the US diplomatic corps also appear to love throwing female diplomats into volatile areas controlled by militants with links to al-Qaeda.
Like Jones and Patterson, the names of female colleagues in the US State Department would spontaneously leap to the mind of their misogynist superiors when new ambassadors should be nominated for filling vacant jobs in hot spots across the globe in general and in Central Asia and the Middle East in particular. Patterson had been posted before in the war-ravaged Afghanistan, which is still boiling with Islamists-led ideological war. After Afghanistan, she was posted in Cairo shortly before an uprising that brought Islamists to power.
It must be said that misogynists in the US State Department have their affiliates in the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. With little discussion, the Senate panel on a voice vote approved Deborah Jones in May. At her confirmation hearing, Jones promised to work to ensure sufficient security at the buildings of the US missions in Libya. She also said that she would simply pick up the phone and call Washington if she felt security was lax. But, is she pretty sure that her incessant calls would fall on attentive ears in the proper time in Washington?
But perhaps, the misogynists in the US State Department have logical reasons, which could defend their persistence of posting ladies in volatile regions under the Islamists' control.
They may argue that Islamists would find it disgraceful to cause physical harm to Western females. But the reality is something far different from what these misogynists expect from Islamists. Islamists are the most notorious misogynists. Whether locals or foreigners, women, equipped with irresistible physical weapons of attractiveness, would alone survive the hatred of Islamists, overpower them and finally bring them down to their knees.


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