First of all, there was a small experience update earlier this morning. Secondly, I have added Macedonian (by request) as a language for submissions. I'd be glad to add any languages that people would like to write in. Just let me know. I'll even add Tengwar or Klingon if people feel like writing in them.
This war might seem like it's over, but I doubt it's that simple. Let's presume though for a minute that the Northern Alliance really has beaten the Taliban and is able to hold on — they have declared themselves the rightful and elected rulers of Afghanistan already. Ignoring the fact that we've gone from extreme religious fundamentalists to raping and murdering drug warlords (I don't know if that's from bad to worse, or just from bad to other bad, but it's not a positive change), how do we interact with these new rulers?
The Northern Alliance obviously doesn't have Bin Laden, and if they did, would probably just kill him — and the claims now are that he has fled anyway. In addition, they've told the British and US forces to leave — will they? If we were invading Afghanistan over Bin Laden, will we continue involvement now that's he's not being held by the ruling party? I suspect we will… After all, Clinton bombed Afghanistan in 1998, killing at least 30 innocent people largely to draw attention away from Staineddressgate or whatever it was called.
However: of the 60,000 Taliban troops, less than 1,000 are presumed to have been killed by the US bombing and the Northern Alliance's strikes. Which lends strong evidence that they may have simply made a strategic retreat, rather than surrendering, and we will be hearing from them again soon enough. Thank god a strong missile shield is being enacted, right? I'm sure that'll make us much more safe from terrorists.
Cheney has said that the US will be targeting about 50 more countries with diplomatic, financial, and military strikes. Thank god their intelligence is so good, right? After all, we need to bring Christianity to these heathens!
When we're done showing the world what freedom is about, let's make sure we protect it at home as well. It would be a shame if we let the constitution enslave us, or we lost our freedom to secretly try and execute foreigners. Most importantly, we need to protect our freedom to train dictators, drug warlords, and foreign terrorists. After all, that's what makes America strong! Never know when the Germans will start WW4 and we need to start executing them again…
