[myrrh]

I am not in anyway saying that the Taliban were ever the good guys. I am just pointing out some facts.

And just because we hear that the opium trade is back and that the Taliban are using it to fund themselves, doesn't mean that it is truth because we are hearing it from Western media sources, who no doubt paint the Taliban to be straight up evil.

Why can't the run Afghanistan? Just because they don't have a democracy that is approved by the US and it's allies? Look at China. Look at all the South American governments, etc etc. Why can't people of their country run their country however they want, without the Western countries stepping in and trying to dictate 'how' they should be run.

The typical thing people say (this is not directed to you Rog) is about the women, but look how women are treated in the US. Sure they are not forced to wear a burka but really they are treated like complete sex objects. They are portrayed this way in the media, they are used to sell everything from sex to cars, to whatever.

I am not trying to debate the treatment of women, but lets be fair here, when we say that the while the Taliban took the women issue to one extreme, in the West we have taken it to the other.