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So the Taliban is capable of moral flexibility after all?
I thought one of the "good things" we were supposed to admire about the Taliban was that they lowered the Opium production--y'know, like Mussilini's trains.
Now they are promising to defend the fields from eradication. Any constituency in a storm, I guess.
As long as the gov. puts a deadline on the amnesty, I think this might be a good idea. So many horrible things have happened in Afghanistan's past, they can't prosecute all of them. If the drug lords invest their profits, end their production, and cooperate, the nation might be better off not prosecuting.
So the Taliban is capable of moral flexibility after all?
ReplyDeleteI thought one of the "good things" we were supposed to admire about the Taliban was that they lowered the Opium production--y'know, like Mussilini's trains.
Now they are promising to defend the fields from eradication. Any constituency in a storm, I guess.
As long as the gov. puts a deadline on the amnesty, I think this might be a good idea. So many horrible things have happened in Afghanistan's past, they can't prosecute all of them. If the drug lords invest their profits, end their production, and cooperate, the nation might be better off not prosecuting.