What do AIG and President Karzai have in common?

From the AP wire story on a new law in Afghanistan. Evidently, the Afghans ain't gettin' any, so:

"As long as the husband is not traveling, he has the right to have sexual intercourse with his wife every fourth night," Article 132 of the [new] law says. "Unless the wife is ill or has any kind of illness that intercourse could aggravate, the wife is bound to give a positive response to the sexual desires of her husband."

One provision also appears to protect the woman's right to sex inside marriage saying the "man should not avoid having sexual relations with his wife longer than once every four months."

The State Department is not amused.

The U.S. is "very concerned" about the law, said State Department spokesman Robert Wood. "We urge President Karzai to review the law's legal status to correct provisions of the law that limit or restrict women's rights."

So . . . we wrote the Afghan constitution to allow their president to "correct" laws passed by their legislature?

Wood added that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had met with female Afghan lawmakers in The Hague and had assured them that "women's rights are going to be paramount in this administration's foreign policy, not an afterthought."

It occurs to me that the Obama administrations attitude toward other countries is the same as its attitude toward the American economy, and for much the same reason: we bailed you out, so you better dance to our tune. 'Cuz, you know, we totally PWND your ass!

Nuance.