A reminder of Taliban "justice"

Bill O'Reilly:

ON the road from the airport to the Af ghan capital of Kabul, you pass a stone wall adorned with iron rings. The Taliban used these to chain Afghans who'd transgressed. Then the poor souls were publicly stoned to death. Justice, Taliban style.

After 9/11, America quickly defeated the Taliban government, which had aided and abetted Osama bin Laden's terrorist killers. America could have walked away right then, leaving Afghanistan to whatever warlord could achieve power.

But once again America tried to do something noble: The Bush administration poured billions into Afghanistan, where more than half the population is illiterate and life expectancy is just 44 years. Also, America convinced NATO forces to help occupy the country so that an infrastructure could be built and one of the most impoverished peoples on earth might have some hope of a better life.

For our trouble, we're now engaged in a vicious guerrilla war starring the remnants of the Taliban allied with al Qaeda killers. About 25,000 Americans are in the Afghan theater, plus some 26,000 NATO forces. These men and women are protecting the Afghan population as best they can, but chaos abounds.

That's because the neighboring government of Pakistan allows both the Taliban and al Qaeda sanctuary. US and NATO forces aren't allowed to hunt down the bad guys inside Pakistan, who thus have a safe place from which to launch attacks.

The Pakistani border town of Quetta is command control for the Taliban. Every intelligence agency in South Asia knows this. Pakistani strongman Pervez Musharraf could move against the Taliban and badly damage them. But he doesn't. He takes billions in US aid and allows these thugs a good night's sleep after they murder.

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Pakistan needs to embrace US assistance in a counterinsurgency program against the Taliban that resides in that country as well as al Qaeda headquarters. Until we destroy the sanctuaries, we will continue to be attacked by the forces of wickedness and evil that make up the Islamist religious bigot movement.

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