Bubblebutt, your ass is grass, and harpgirl is a lawn mower!!!

Harpgirl, I think you raise an excellent point. We have condemned the Taliban regime openly in the President's speech, among other things for the very abuses you are thinking of -- the brutality toward women, the arbitrary denial of civil freedoms, the repression of speech, not to mention the phsyical abuses.

But we are not ordering them to reform their government. We are focusing here on terrorism.

Since their protection of terrorists and their abuse of women are both rolled up in their minds with confused ideas about who Allah is and what wants, the two issues may unroll together, resulting in the Taliban and their radical ilk being ejected both by our saber-rattling and internal revolt led by outraged citizens. Wouldn't THAT be a step forward in a difficult time?

(A burly, hard-hatted redneck leaps into the middle of the post waving a Scotch plaid colored thermos bottle and raising his middle finger in the general direction of the assembled clerics of Afganistan. He yells loudly in a distinctly Brooklyn accent: "Allah THIS, motherfuckers!!!".)

Honest, I get so sick of these stupid dramatizations pretending to speak from Infinity, when actually speaking from the dark places in the human anatomy....

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