Laura Bush’s feminist rhetoric served her husband’s war plans.

Evidence

17, 2001: “The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.” Curiously, Laura Bush’s sudden interest in Muslim women’s rights coincided with her husband’s decision to invade Afghanistan. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 792

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ — the weaponization of concern for women’s dress and dignity as imperial/state pretext.
• CANDY: The ironic juxtaposition — sudden feminist concern exactly timed to an invasion — is a light, shareable, ironic point.
• XREF: connects to: Bush used women’s rights and democracy to justify war — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 455