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?
I've listened to Afghan women discuss that they were forced to leave their homelands if they wanted to work and earn a living. I've heard Afghan women say that women are denied medical care because only a woman can touch them and yet no women are allowed to work as doctors. And they can be whipped for showing an ankle or beaten if they are seen without a burka. This is very much a sick society, it doesn't need "demonization" it just is demonic. I believe this is how the children of the Taliban are raised. We also can't forget the Taliban is using the children as shields to protect a filthy rich Arab who has done nothing for them, they will allow them all to suffer and die because for the acts of bin Laden.
There's a difference between someone hiding in our country after the fact and someone continuing to operate and orchestrate terrorism WHILE hiding in another country, wouldn't you say?
As for the "demonization" accusation, this was not intended (by the anthropologist at least) to demonize the Afghanis, it was offered by Kurtz as an explanation for why they are so tough and a warning about what we are up against.