Re: Taliban kill 5 Afghans
That’s an awfully weak withdrawl. Anyway, what good is it to highlight things if judgements aren’t made? Surely there must be a point to highlighting something, otherwise are we to think that people just say things without meaning? Isn’t that the definition of nonsense?
The Americans have their faults. But to say they are worse than the Taliban is ridiculous.
The Afghan people have suffered from many things, long before the Americans ever became involved. You mention that the Taliban gave severe punishment for those involved in opium trade. What you neglect is that they gave that punishment selectively (mainly to their opponents, while members of the Taliban themselves profitted from the trade) and, even more damning, they gave punishment, torture and abuse on so many other false charges just to maintain a state of fear and control. The result of that, I would condsider suffering.