re: Protest in Afghanistan after Quran burning
it says a lot about how you view yourselves when your definition of victory is: not being totally and comprehensively extinguished. this is the new definition being used all over the muslim world. you have lost all sense for what victory and loss is. in other words, you implicitly accept the superpower’s own ultra-arrogant definition of victory and if you manage to prevent the superpower from achieving all 100 of its insanely lofty and unrealistic goals, then you have achieved victory.
definition of taliban success: being forcibly thrown out of power overnight. being kept out of power and forced into the mountains for a decade. being exterminated in the ratio of 100:1 on the battlefield.
imagine a world where eating cheesecake all day leads to six pack abs.