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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (2540)	1/21/2003 6:40:50 AM
From: zonder	Respond to of 25898

I'm still waiting for your condemnation of the Taliban. OK. I wouldn't break your heart, although it is not really the topic we were talking about here: I condemn the Taliban for being religious fundamentalists that took Afghanistan back into the dark ages, practically imprisoning women in their homes, at times causing their starvation because they did not have men to look after them and were not allowed to work. I despised the Taliban far before you ever heard about them, reading in the regional papers just how bad the Afghans were suffering under their backward rule. However, the Taliban were not the only governmental horror this planet lived through - I despised Pinochet just as much, a dictator put to power with enormous support from the US government, for those of us not familiar with our history. The point of discussion, if you would like to return there for a second, was the inhuman treatment and subsequent death of a number of people believed to be Taliban and transported like cattle in unventilated tanks. And I am still waiting for some sort of sympathy from you, acknowledging that they were human beings knowingly led to death. >>The place was under US control, remember?<< It was? According to your buddy Toilet Paper, it still isn't. So which is it? I am surprised you did not realize Afghanistan was under definite US control, but then again you do not seem to have a real grip on reality. It was, and it still is, to a certain extent, through the people they have placed in power, which of course is quite natural. By the way, calling people "toilet paper" of some such pejorative is doing absolutely nothing to support your point of view. OK. So stuffing those Taliban into boxcars was a war crime. Great. So the denial is over. Now what? What's your solution? Do we bomb the place back into the stone age again? I don't know what your point is. When there is a war crime, a tribunal should be convened to try the people responsible for it. I don't see how your suggestion, bombing Afghanistan (again), has anything to do with war crimes that have been committed.