//An Afghan refugee who grew up in Canada, Mozhdah Jamalzadah recently returned home to launch an Oprah-style talk show in which she has been able to subtly introduce questions of women's rights without provoking the ire of religious conservatives.//
That says it all - and the key words there are 'religious conservatives'. Unless the people themselves recognise and condemn the injustice and the inhumanity involved here, we have no hope of ever seeing such a culture embrace democracy, human rights, or common decency. The change must come from within - but if men continue to voluntarily abandon their intellect and their freedom to the tenets of an archaic and barbaric doctrine, that isn't going to happen. This is a battle of minds, and dialogue or not, whilst the people think as they do, we will never defeat the Taliban.