At 01:24 PM 11/13/01 -0600, you wrote: >Do I detect jest in this post? The Taliban is involved in the drug trade. >Officials in cities where production is heavy have publicly admitted they >cannot control production and that they will not because they need the >support and the farmers need the money. Officials have taken reporters to >places alleged to hold confiscated opium, but it is more likely that these >are storage bins and part of the processing network. The Taliban forbid kite >flying, high heels, laughing and music, yet they run drugs and guns and >enjoy lynching people. These guys are truly the no fun mob.
I wasn't jesting, except at the end (the second-from-last paragraph). I don't know if the T is or was involved with drugs or not (since the evidence in the media is mixed), but was taking the US government as its word that the T was giving a good college try in this matter (before the administration had the incentive to make the T look as bad as possible to justify terror-bombing). (Of course, the fact that his Dubya-ness' version of a good college try is the "gentleman's C" says something about his administration's standards.) BTW, I don't consider the T to be a "fun mob." It's the kind of authoritarian crap that I've as long as I've thought about political issues.
