holding executions in stadiums, torture, executions of Christians -health and development volunteers - the taliban are not native afghanis...they are brutalizing them in fact, with their rogue arab islamist (as opposed to muslim) element...freeing the native afghaniis from their fascist oppressors would be a good thing...though such would cost american and/or allied lives on the ground... its crucial not to fight moderate and educated muslims who would like to be a part of the civilized world...this intention and motivation must be kept by us...or it would be world war III...and armageddon... bush is, with colin powell's help, already quite properly pinpointing this delineation...thank God... but God prevent a mushrooming conflagration to take place by the reaction of the whole muslim world... see Beneath the Veil: http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/presents/index.veil.html shane