The Taliban are foul and excratory religious fundamentalist. They murder, inflict hell on their own people and have now decided that it's time to branch out.

Funny how we socialists find it so easy to speak out against the US and new world order economics, which is certainly IN order, but we get cold feet and chickenshit about these dirty mutherfucker 3rd world goatfucker religious freeks.

They are as dirty as the WTO, the World Bank, the IMF and all George Bush's friends all rolled into one. They would kill and eat an American anarchist as quick as they would butcher Hillary Clinton if they could get their hands on either

Our enemy's enemy is not always our friend.

Don't be afraid to lump the Taliban in the same dumster as any other self-serving chunk of selfish human garbage as those that we are already very well acquainted.

These pests are as much a threat to true self determination as any of the bigger well known menaces.

It's okay. Tee off on Islamic fundamentalists. They deserve it.

It's very true.

If it was fundies, then the attacks were not against "capitalism" alone, but against the West in general. They oppose the degeneracy of the West, women's rights, and our atheism or non Islamic religions.

If it was bin Laden's people, then, what they want is a war. A war against Islam could unite the Islamic world against the West. Any war against Islam is a losing war because:

- they have the oil

- they have more people willing to fight

- we have the nice lives

- except for their rulers, their lives are shitty

Oh, and one last thing...

- they're armed and trained by the CIA

The problem, clearly, is that we like to fund the fundamentalist Muslim dictators in the regions. We don't fund the moderates. Why? Maybe because they'd institute democracies, create oil tariffs, maybe implement some socialism to deal with their poverty, and otherwise stop being dupes for the US of A.

No doubt the Taliban is horriffic. I don't think I've heard anyone say that they're not. That does not change the fact that in my opinion we should be doing everything in our power to stop a war in Afghanistan. The people who will die, as always in war will not be mainly the Taliban, it will be the people with less resources. Obviously in Afghanistan the group that comes to mind in that regard immediately is women. And of course the fact that if there is a ground war the bullet catchers on this side of the equasion will be almost exclusively black and brown. And we must make sure we do not play into the main feeling out there that Islam is an evil religion and all arabs and moslems should be exterminated. Regardless of what some claim, Islam is at root a peaceful religion.

Solidarity in dark times sisters and brothers.

Perhaps I will not refer to the GOP as the Taliban Republicans any longer. However, unless they've changed their stripe, they're still intolerant.

It is unfortunate the US was in an extended war with the Soviet Union, which led to the CIA's arming of the Taliban.

But then, it was unfortunate the CIA did the same thing with the Iraq's Hussein... actually, that wasn't so much the CIA as the US administration... exactly what that means, I'm not certain.... more or less money went to Saddam???

It's time for US foreign policy to be based on human rights, and goodwill.