Life, death and the Taliban
Life, death and the Taliban seeks to enhance America’s understanding of Taliban history in Afghanistan and Pakistan. At this crucial time in the U.S.-led war against the Taliban, Charlie Sennott recaps the group’s rise to power and looks at current political and counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan. Photographer Seamus Murphy, who has long chronicled the shifts of power in Afghanistan, accompanied Sennott to Kabul for this report. Full Story »
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Afghanistan is not Vietnam. We, the United States are not the aggressor but the defender against a vicious and warped clique of deliberately ignorant men. Any culture that demands the death of 10 year old girls merely because they want to learn about the world deserves to be rooted out and eliminated no matter how long it may take us. Just because they are no legally constituted state, Al Queda and their Taliban stooges are still waging aggressive war no different than what the Nazi waged. Thank god it is still waging a war of the weak. Islamism and its practitioners have to be stomped out just like the cockroaches they are, before they reach the strength to wage open war.