Taliban spreads to Pakistan

Liar Bush in 2003: "We destroyed the Taliban in Afghanistan."

Some nobody in 2008: "We destroyed the Taliban in Afghanistan."

Me in 2009: No you didn't.

Bush cultists tolerate no dissent from their foreign policy objectives. In today's McCarthyist atmosphere, once you publicly challenge their views on foreign policy, you're almost done for. But now we see the results of the Bush regime taking its eye off the ball for years.

The Taliban has now spread to Pakistan, where the right-wing religious militia is banning girls from attending school. Over 40,000 girls in northwestern Pakistan have now been deprived of an education under the Taliban, which has blown up schools and decapitated opponents.

All this in what was previously one of Pakistan's more progressive regions.

Of course, this is the same Taliban that Republican administrations in Washington backed in the '80s and '90s. The American government said the Taliban were Afghanistan's freedom fighters back then. This is also the same Taliban that Bill Frist wanted kept in Afghanistan's government after they had supposedly been ousted.

Now do you understand why we shouldn't blindly follow right-wing foreign policy aims?

The Taliban's power was typically thought to be confined to Afghanistan until now. Other countries have similar movements - let's not deceive ourselves into thinking America's Religious Right is significantly different - but everyone thought the Taliban itself would never be in control of anything outside Afghanistan.

But not anymore - because of endeavors like the Iraq War that took our eye off the ball.

(Source: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/DN-pakistan_18int.ART.State.Edition1.4ec1ee1.html)