-- James A. Donald:
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. [...] 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.
On 17 Dec 2001, at 8:30, Mark Henderson wrote:
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.
Perhaps, but they did not slaughter minority groups before, and they are not doing it right now. More importantly, they did not slaughter several thousand westerners before, and they are not killing random western journalists right now. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG YB3S+eH0vvZ6wzEgSsqLYrnLiqeRGaQSl8sYmVIf 4M39oEKzqjnvvqBLAoHclxU0SZh4WlrS3VTtHY2G3