Barbara Walters of television's 20/20 did a story on gender roles in
Kabul, Afghanistan , several years before the Afghan conflict. She noted that
women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands.

She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk behind
their husbands. From Miss Walters' vantage point, despite the overthrow
of the oppressive Taliban regime, the women now seem to walk even further
back behind their husbands, and are happy to maintain the old custom.

Miss Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, ''Why do you
now seem happy with an old custom that you once tried so desperately to
change? The woman looked Miss Walters straight in the eyes, and without
hesitation said, 'Land Mines.'

Moral of the story is ... (no matter where you go) . . .

BEHIND EVERY MAN, THERE'S A SMARTER WOMAN!