Behind every man is a smart woman

A reporter who did a story on gender roles in Kabul, Afghanistan, several years before the Afghan conflict noted then that women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands.

She recently retuned to Kabul and obseved that women still walk behind their husbands.

She approached one of the Afghan women and asked, "Why do you now seem happy with the old custom that you once tried so desperately to change?"

The woman looked her in the eyes and said without hesitation: "Land mines."