There was no "moral paralysis and equivalence." What do you propose, going to war in Afghanistan to install a government to our liking? Oh, wait, I forgot, we already did that, and this is the result.
I note with interest your use of the leftist trope that we only went to war in Afghanistan to install a puppet government, ahem, a "government to our liking."
More evidence that the palaeos like to hold hands with the Black Bloc.
No, we intstalled a DEMOCRACY in a 99% Muslim and 75% illiterate country. It's just the "will of the people".
The election of Hamas also proves the "will of the people" in "palestine" (wherever that has ever been) is for war against Israel.
If Iran was a true democracy, I don't think the leadership would be any different.
God (not Allah) help us all if the Saudis and Egyptians get more democracy.
The common thing of all these places is the influence of the POLITICAL SYSTEM OF ISLAM. Islam is not a religion, and anyone practicing it should be convicted of sedition and deported from the shores of the USA.