By Today I read in the NY Times that the Pakistani Army is suspected of executing Taliban supporters in the Swat Valley that was seized and abused by the Taliban until the Pakistan Army pushed the Taliban out.
There is also the probable eye-for-an-eye retribution killing of the Taliban by the locals who were abused (killed, tortured, coerced, etc. etc.) during the Taliban's occupation.
American liberals are concerned that this brutality on the part of the Pakistani Army may taint our military's relationship with them.
HUH?!!
What the heck is going on here? The Pakistanis are killing the enemy. We are killing the enemy. Killing the enemy is good. The enemy is rabid, underhanded, cruel, brutal, ruthless, human-shielding, furtive, and WANTS TO KILL MORE AMERICANS IN AMERICA!
We are living in a mixed-up whirled.
The following is my poetic attempt to express my grasp of the situation in Afghanistan and its environs:
In the land of the Loya JirgaThe women wear the burka.
It's as different as Mars
From this world of ours,
And that's why this limerick just ain't gonna worka.
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