Vote for a wise woman

Hillary for president? There's no doubt that the world is completely unbalanced following several millennia of exclusively male leadership. But does Hillary really constitute female leadership? Her promise to "obliterate Iran" suggests she's lacking some of the specific characteristics - wisdom, forbearance, patience - that we're after.

We desperately need female leaders of the wise kind to sort out all the by-products of

fear-based, selfish, accumulation-driven leadership - global warming, pointless wars, fuel shortages, the fact that no one knows their neighbour.

You might imagine that humanity everywhere - male and female - behaves the same. I probably thought so too until I went to Afghanistan. It's a beautiful country, where mountains bleached like bone fall to vivid green valleys.

But, wherever you look in Afghanistan, some astonishing scene of brutality is guaranteed to meet the eye: school boys stoning each other; grown men punching each other; grown