17 Dec
2001
17 Dec
'01
11:52 a.m.
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 04:40:33PM -0800, jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
Someone who is too blind to recognize evil when it heaves a rock at his head needs some more rocks in the face to improve his vision. ... However a short while ago, the Taliban was slaughtering various minority groups, throwing their bodies into wells to poison the ground water, bulldozing their houses and irrigation ditches, cutting down their mulberry trees and bulldozing their vines. Now they cannot do that any more. I hope Fisk goes back there for some more beatings.
How touchingly naive. But, don't despair, now Afghanistan is ruled by a different set of thugs. They'll bulldoze different houses, and torture and kill different people.