AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
Walker Recall Effort Struggles To Gain Momentum
Controversial Book On Obama Appears To Have Lifted Key Quote
Glass ceiling
29 Women Break Afghan Army's Glass Ceiling
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Sept. 23) -- Twenty-nine former housewives graduated today from the Afghan National Army's officer candidacy school, becoming their country's first female military officers in a generation. Afghan women served in the military up until the 1980s but were sidelined from the army under the strict Islamic policies of the Taliban that followed the Soviet withdrawal in 1989. Today's new female officers won't be posted on the front lines of battles against Taliban fighters but will instead take up administrative jobs, helping to lead the Afghan military into a new era once U.S. forces begin ...
Hillary Clinton: The Indispensable Woman
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyHillary Clinton seems quite content with the job she has, traveling the world to tamp down conflicts together with promoting better global health conditions for women and children in particular. As secretary of state, she's taken the lead in advocating "soft power" as a necessary and valuable component of American might. That's why it comes as a bit of a surprise to see Clinton touted as a possible successor to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who plans to step down sometime next year. This speculation has surfaced before, along with an alternate scenario that has Clinton trading places with ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- Irked Senate Panel Votes 30-0 to Cut Pakistan Aid
- GSA Bash Organizer Steps Down
- More Stories »
- Know Your Enemy
- Obama’s Challenge in Egypt
- The Edwards Waiting Game
- Are Doctors Doing Too Much?
- The Pagan Cult of Reagan
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics