Airport insanity

[James A. Donald]

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James A. Donald:
> > The Taliban were illegitimate, not on legal grounds, but 
> > because they were evil.

J.A. Terranson
> Using this line of "reasoning", Shrub is ripe for that 
> overdue case of high velocity lead poisoning.

Doubtless he is, but to suggest that he is comparably evil to 
the taliban casts doubt on your sanity.

James A. Donald:
> > Thirdly a government that systematically depopulates large 
> > areas of the territory it supposedly rules is not as 
> > legitimate as warlords with genuine local roots and 
> > traditional authority, who for the most part came to power 
> > through religious or military leadership in a spontaneous 
> > revolution against tyranny.

J.A. Terranson
> And if the local warlords are also participating in a vast 
> depopulation, then what?

But the "Warlords" are not.  Under the Taliban, huge numbers of 
people fled Afghanistan, under the Northern alliance, they 
returned. 

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