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"In a more culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of "suttee" - the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands. Gen. Sir Charles Napier was impeccably multicultural:

"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: When men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks, and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."

Thanks for quoting the "money paragraph" in Mark's piece. Will we assert our character and beliefs? Will we require freedom of religion in Afghanistan as the price of their freedom from the Taliban?

15 posted on 03/25/2006 11:52:35 AM PST by Forgiven_Sinner (God is offering you eternal life right now. Freep mail me if you want to know how to receive it.)

Will we require freedom of religion in Afghanistan as the price of their freedom from the Taliban?

Not publicly, unless we want to reenact the First Afghan War.

24 posted on 03/25/2006 12:32:08 PM PST by Cannoneer No. 4 (Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)

98 posted on 03/26/2006 5:24:34 AM PST by truemiester (If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years)