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To: TimF who wrote (588101)	9/29/2010 7:38:53 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571234

" I just pointed out that there are certain hard facts in this situation. One of them is that the Taliban are the main source of civilian deaths in Afghanistan." That statement does not define a hard fact of objective reality for me because I am not sure what you are declaring exactly. Are you saying that the Taliban targets and kills more civilians than other sources, that more civilians are killed incidentally by Taliban attacks, or that the Taliban is more culpable for civilian deaths than other sources? --- The Taliban are atrociously abusive with power, I wouldn't argue otherwise. "They seem to occur wherever the Taliban has any degree of power." They are not in power, the Karzai Government is and it is viewed as corrupt by the citizens of Afghanistan and the world audience in general. --- " Reality in the age of reason is not defined by what some political authority declares for you "I said never implied anything remotely resembling that idea." Sure you did. You ignored the possibility that their direct experience was a valid judge of justice effecting them personally and their local conditions, over ruling that with the Authoritative view, which is authored primarily according to the interests of western culture. ----------------------------- None of the above responded to the position I presented which is that the circumstance has evolved, there is a great deal of confusion about it from the top Administration to political leadership and the average joe on the street. Which calls for a reassessment regarding the nobility of our mission.