Karzai's complaints scuttled the planned meeting between US and Taliban representatives.

Afghan women are worried that the Taliban will deny them what rights Karzai's regime has established for them.

The US should have armed Afghan women. Who knows what sort of gun a woman has under her burqa, and if a woman kills a talib, there will be no way to identify her afterward. Eventually the Taliban would be forced to order women not to wear burqas.