Taliban Not Terrorist After All

When the US State Department issued its annual Country Reports on Terrorism last Friday, it listed numerous state-sponsors of terrorism, like Iran, and groups it considers foreign terrorist organizations, like Hamas, Al Qaeda, and Hizbullah. Conspicuously absent from the lists, however, was the Taliban.
Was not the Taliban the first state sponsored terrorist that Mr. Bush just had to have a war with? The group which had supported Bin Laden and therefore the reason that we went to war with Afghanistan? Weren’t these the bad people who were not treating women right? Who weren’t treating Christians right? What has happened? Have we defeated them totally? Are there no more Taliban in the world?
Another puzzle which makes it hard to wrap your brain around this Administrations thinking.

In an article entitled “Terrorism’s Dubious ‘A’ List,” the non-partisan Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) reports that the religious extremist organization has never been listed as a terrorist group by the US, Britain, the EU, Canada, Australia, or any of the coalition partners, despite the fact that during its six year rule in Afghanistan, it provided save haven for Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, and currently is staging terrorist attacks against coalition forces and waging a national campaign of intimidation and fear…….the people in Kandahar, where she lives, “have reached an astonishing conclusion: The United States must be in league with the Taliban … In other words, in a stunning irony, much of this city, the Taliban’s former stronghold, is disgusted with the Americans not because of their Western culture, but because of their apparent complicity with Islamist extremists.”{Source}

If they aren’t terrorist now, were they back in 2002? Or were we really only using that as a way to get our troops into Afghanistan to have control over and to protect the oil pipeline route?

Well, damn, we should not have gone to war with these peace loving, religious fanatics. All a big mistake. Let’s bring back to life all the dead in Afghanistan, both sides. Let’s bring our troops home from at least Afghanistan. Sorry folks, our mistake. They really are good guys!