Pariah Nation: defying the Taliban

[eSDee]

I was checking out CNN and I ran across this article about the people of Afghanistan. I found it very interesting, not to mention enlightening. I hope that when the war is finally over life is better for them over there. It sure doesn't seem like it could get any worse:

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Five years after it imposed a harsh brand of Islam on Afghanistan, the Taliban remains the scourge of the world community, criticized for human rights abuses and harboring terrorists, including Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 attack on the United States. In his spring journey to this remote nation, Mendenhall found something surprising: A willingness on the part of ordinary Afghans to resist and even defy the Taliban's iron grip on society.

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The rest here:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/afghan_front.asp?0sp=n8b6b6

[BrewMaster]

Originally posted by EsDeeLoco


...criticized for human rights abuses...

I think it's sad that we and every other country rail on Afghanistan about human rights violations, but if it's our allies we brush it under the rug. I'm glad we stand up against Afghanistan and the Taliban's oppression of people, but what about in the Phillipines where the police and the military are known to kill innocent civilians and claim they are opposition guerillas? Or the government run brothels in India or the Phillipines? Or the forced/slave labor in India, Pakistan, and Indonesia?

I'm not going to get into other countries because I don't want to incite a vB riot. All I'm saying is that we need to squeeze our politicans to REALLY give a crap about human rights, not just when it's convinient to our interests.

[eSDee]

Originally posted by BrewMaster


I think it's sad that we and every other country rail on Afghanistan about human rights violations, but if it's our allies we brush it under the rug. I'm glad we stand up against Afghanistan and the Taliban's oppression of people, but what about in the Phillipines where the police and the military are known to kill innocent civilians and claim they are opposition guerillas? Or the government run brothels in India or the Phillipines? Or the forced/slave labor in India, Pakistan, and Indonesia?

I'm not going to get into other countries because I don't want to incite a vB riot. All I'm saying is that we need to squeeze our politicans to REALLY give a crap about human rights, not just when it's convinient to our interests.

I agree with you there Brewmaster. Truly there are other injustices around the world worthy of our attention. However my intention is to put some faces to this war, in order to show that we are only at war with the Taliban and not all the citizens of Afghanistan.

[BrewMaster]

I feel you Loco. But it's pretty hard to separate the citizens from the country. I'm glad the Taliban is goign to be a thing of the past soon, but we can't claim that NO civilians are being harmed. But, like you said, we can hope that life for them is better after all of this mees.

That Nother Front group or whatever the opposition is to the Taligban wouldn't be much better I reckon. We'll probably end up fighting them too in the long run b/c they won;t do what G-dub likes. Did you hear that the Taliban were trying to get the oppostion forces to join with them against the US. I think the Taliban have been using too much of their own product (opium).