10.04.2004
Upcoming Afghani Elections
It's coming. Saturday, the people of Afghanistan will elect a president. This will be the first such election in that tired country's history. Many people will attempt to throw a cog in the works. Expect violent acts and disruptions in the process. But it will happen.
10 million have registered for the vote, including four million women !
Recall three years ago, when the Taliban ruled supreme and kept Al Qaeda warm and happy across its poppy-fruited plain. They used to publicly execute fornicators in the Kabul soccer stadium, with lots of hand-choppings as warm-up acts.
The left says we quit fighting the OBL terrorists. Not so. The Afghani elections are manifest evidence we have taken it to them hard.
See Ralph R. Reiland's op-ed in today's Pittsburg Tribune Review.
No, Afghanistan is worse than San Francisco, worse than a bit untidy. But it's unquestionably not as bad as when it was the training ground for the movement that attacked New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. Instead, Afghanistan is now a line in the sand in the global struggle between a murderous form of theocratic fascism and the rest of the world, a major front in the battle against the Taliban and al-Qaida murderers who seek to slaughter as many of us as is necessary in order to purify the world. It's a fight, if we're to continue to exist, that we can't afford to lose.
It's coming. Saturday, the people of Afghanistan will elect a president. This will be the first such election in that tired country's history. Many people will attempt to throw a cog in the works. Expect violent acts and disruptions in the process. But it will happen.
10 million have registered for the vote, including four million women !
Recall three years ago, when the Taliban ruled supreme and kept Al Qaeda warm and happy across its poppy-fruited plain. They used to publicly execute fornicators in the Kabul soccer stadium, with lots of hand-choppings as warm-up acts.
The left says we quit fighting the OBL terrorists. Not so. The Afghani elections are manifest evidence we have taken it to them hard.
See Ralph R. Reiland's op-ed in today's Pittsburg Tribune Review.
None of what I'm saying is meant to suggest that things are fundamentally OK in Afghanistan, or in Iraq. The assessment on Afghanistan that Donald Rumsfeld gave to CNN's Larry King in December 2002, a year after the Taliban had been driven from power, was plainly too upbeat. "There are people who are throwing hand grenades and shooting off rockets and trying to kill people, but there are people who are trying to kill people in New York or San Francisco," said Rumsfeld. "So it's not going to be a perfectly tidy place."
No, Afghanistan is worse than San Francisco, worse than a bit untidy. But it's unquestionably not as bad as when it was the training ground for the movement that attacked New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. Instead, Afghanistan is now a line in the sand in the global struggle between a murderous form of theocratic fascism and the rest of the world, a major front in the battle against the Taliban and al-Qaida murderers who seek to slaughter as many of us as is necessary in order to purify the world. It's a fight, if we're to continue to exist, that we can't afford to lose.
// posted by HunterByrd @ 6:03 AM 
