[Anamensis]

But remember: anthropologists are notoriously left-wing. Rarely, if ever, have they produced literature intent upon helping demonize the people they are studying. And if you read the entire article, it's possible to detect a great deal of the cultural relativism rampant in humanties academia.

Finally, the post was not "this is why we are bombing them." It isn't. They've been doing this for decades, perhaps centuries. Whatever. We're bombing them because of something that happened about 7 weeks ago, you may remember it, this incident in NY?

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

It's the constant drumbeat of demonization that I object to. You might also remember a little humanitarian capmpaign a few years back against the demon/nazi Serbs--the rape camps, mass graves, forced blood donations and blah, blah, blah. None was true--in spite of the fact that the entire corporate media/government bureaucracy went into overdrive with "cultural" experts and trained "historians" bloviating around the clock upon the demonic nature of these backwards, nationalist, religious fanatics.

Have you seen something linking the "Stone Age" Taliban to the attacks carried out on September 11th? I've seem plenty of bloody footprints leading up to the palaces of Saudi oil shieks, to firing ranges in Wales, to mosques in London, Germany and the United States, to college campuses in the USA and other Western Countries, to car dealerships in Egypt, but NONE to the, now smokey, holes of Afghanistan.

You say they won't "cough up" Osama? Well, our government wouldn't cough up the Shah either; and the Iranian government had quite a list of horrors for which they wanted to try him too. Were they justified in doing what they did to punish us for our intransigence in your opinion?