This is what our soldiers are fighting for?

News item, as reported by BBC:

"An Afghan bill allowing a husband to starve his wife if she refuses to have sex has been published in the official gazette and become law .... It allows a man to withhold food from his wife if she refuses his sexual demands .... [The] bill has passed quietly into law with the apparent approval of President Karzai."

Point of reference: 1,315 allied soldiers, 782 of them from the U.S., have died to create and protect the government that just enacted this barbaric law.

Note: this was originally posted on ketches, yaks & hawks 17 August 2009