Are they in power? Or did they just walk into some cities and start shooting people? Will there be anything like a functioning government, or will it just be anarchy (in the bad sense, of course)? Doug
Yes, really Chuck0 should be happy, since from an anarchist standpoint the revolution in Afghanistan is now complete. [Come over to 17th & L for a drink sometime Chuck; I miss being followed by police. Losing my edge.]
Hitch's gloating shifts focus from his subject to his sodden self, perhaps intentionally. But on the subject front, he is mostly right. What has happened so far has been good. People can't bear the thought that it is due to the U.S. Gov (and even worse, trust-fund baby Bush; worse still, for bad motives!), since it explodes their understanding of the world. If you don't like Taliban symps being shot in the street, go watch the film footage of Taliban clubbing women who flash some ankle.
And the fact that some violence and suffering is the cost offends pacifist sensibilities. (If your only contingency for the justifiable use of force is wholly imaginary and unlikely, then as that sappy comic says, "you may be a pacifist." Not to worry, you could have done a lot worse. You could have ended up in "Workers World"!!
It's not as good as Marx, but it's original: idealist merely fret about the inevitable; realists think about how to rechannel it.
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