Posted October 14, 2008
While coalition forces continue to kill militants in the provinces south of Kabul, the resilient Taliban forces continue to expand their influence in the area. Their presence is so overwhelming in some areas that they’re set up their own ’shadow government’ with its own court system. In the areas they control most completely, these government systems are considerably more powerful than their coalition-supported counterparts, and according to some reports, better accepted.
Christian Science Monitor reports that in provinces like Logar and Ghazni, locals are eschewing the wildly corrupt Afghan government in favor of the more credible Taliban alternative. Rather than dealing with a government court system rife with bribery, many are choosing to take their disputes to the sharia-based Taliban courts.
The Afghan government has insisted all along that the Taliban’s interest in the provinces begins and ends with their designs on recapturing Kabul. And with the Taliban openly patrolling the streets during the day, Afghan government police don’t dare enter many of the areas. Not that they’re needed, as many villagers say that crime has virtually vanished anyhow.
--source--"Also see: Kabul Is Now Surrounded By The Taliban
Taliban Are Smarter Than AmeriKans
Afghans Wax Nostalgic For Taliban
And want to take a real kick in the head?
"The U.S. government was well aware of the Taliban's reactionary program, yet it chose to back their rise to power in the mid-1990s. The creation of the Taliban was "actively encouraged by the ISI and the CIA," according to Selig Harrison, an expert on U.S. relations with Asia. "The United States encouraged Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to support the Taliban, certainly right up to their advance on Kabul," adds respected journalist Ahmed Rashid. When the Taliban took power, State Department spokesperson Glyn Davies said that he saw "nothing objectionable" in the Taliban's plans to impose strict Islamic law, and Senator Hank Brown, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia, welcomed the new regime: "The good part of what has happened is that one of the factions at last seems capable of developing a new government in Afghanistan." "The Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis. There will be Aramco [the consortium of oil companies that controlled Saudi oil], pipelines, an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that," said another U.S. diplomat in 1997."
So why did we kill so many of them, readers?
I would just like to remind you, readers, and the world that LAYING BOMBS on their HOMES and FAMILIES, the littering of DU munitions, the secret prisons, the torture, the families displaced, the lives shattered, the chemicals dumped on them, all based on a BUNCH of LIES!!!
Whatever you think of the "Taliban," they NEVER DID ANYTHING TO US!!!!
