10/19/2009 Taliban Opinion Canvassing

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/19/rohde/

In my continuing series of columns commenting on things you really should be reading yourself, I write about the latest entry of David Rohe's fascinating account of being kidnapped by the Taliban.

The Taliban guys said a lot of things that were actually true, like the US killing civilians and keeping people locked up god-knows-where and subjecting them to god-knows-what.

We think of stuff like that as bad apples in a good bunch, but they think it means we are trying to wipe them out.

Pretty much it's because none of us really gives a rat's ass. If they did to us what we do to them, though, we'd care a lot. We still care more about 9/11 than we really should, but that's a drop in the bucket to what the Middle East gets from us on a regular basis.

A sizable minority of people in the USA still want to attack Middle Eastern countries today, which tells you that a sizable minority of people in the USA failed to develop critical social skills as toddlers.

Glenn On Fire rating: 7 (5 for the article, +2 for it being the 2nd article posted today)
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