As the United States prepares retaliationWrong.This, terrorism and terroristic acts are cancer on society and it threatens any hope we have for peace in the future *if* it (terrorism) isn't snuffed out now.
there is a temptation, already succumbed to rhetorically by some people, to treat the Afghan people or all Middle Easterners as the enemy in a total war.BUT we're not and we haven't ... (WHEN was this article written again)?
Acting on that impulse is exactly what bin Laden wants,Wrong.Osma bin Laden wants us dead. EVERYTHING ELSE is secondary ...
The Taliban are, in many ways, an alien force within Afghan society.Wrong.The Taliban ARE Afghan society. (The Soviets weren't - the Pakaistanis aren't and neither are we.)
Many of the supporters of the Taliban ... are from foreign countries ... and these are some of their best troops in the war against the Northern Alliance.Wrong.We have kicked their butts WITH THE DIRECT INVOLVEMENT of the Northern Alliance (WHEN was this article written again?)
A non-tyrannical government exists to protect the persons and property of everyone inside its jurisdiction by punishing domestic criminals and defeating foreign attackers,Wrong.A so-called "non-tyrannical government" exists to serve only it's *own* selfish self-interests (see ANY dictatorship for an example)
And *that* was only the first *two* paragraphs ...
I disagree. It makes all the difference.
Our government has declined from its original position under the Constitution, but our old liberty can be restored or even improved upon, if enough people have the will to do so.
I agree. Ultimately, we the People are accountable.