[Anamensis]

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?

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.

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

Speaking of "Kurtz" I strongly recommend you dig out your old copy of "Heart Of Darkness"and re-read it. I'd recommend it to everybody around here but people are so grouchy these days....