Joke of the week

Women of Afghanistan

Barbara Walters, of  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.

With the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime,

Barbara Walters noted that women now walked in front of their husbands.

Walters  approached one of the Afghani women and asked,

“It appears that customs have changed and women have

 asserted themselves here, how did this come about?”

The woman looked Walters 

straight in the eyes,

and without hesitation said,

“Land Mines.”