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Did They Make The Trains Run On Time, Too?
CCRM has their weekly outrage posted. It's by Allen Pizzey at CBS from November 25th. According to Mr. Pizzey:
The Taliban claims infighting and excesses of the United Front prompted people in Kandahar and other ethnic Pashtun provinces to ask them to keep fighting. Considering that tribal warfare and its attended looting and lawlessness helped propel the Taliban to power five years ago, who is to dispute that some Afghans may consider their law and order form of Islam a better alternative? A lack of women's rights, bans on music and other archaic laws may offend westerners but in many parts of Afghanistan such strictures aren't that much of a step backwards.
Posted by Rand Simberg at December 03, 2001 10:18 AM