irony: it's what's for dinner

[rone]

DEAD SEA RESORT, Jordan (CNN) -- The Arab world should be showing "a higher level of outrage" over the death of an American businessman whose beheading was posted on an Islamist Web site last week, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday.

When people say there isn't enough outrage over what's happening in Iraq... that's not what they meant.

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Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

In certain places, women are allowed to read and are not beaten up. In most of Afghanistan, things are just as bleak as they were before.

[therobbergirl.livejournal.com]

It's still an accomplishment and worthy of taking note. It's an enormous accomplishment to get rid of institutionalized codes such as those of the Taliban.

For example, look at racism in the US. Compare life in the 1950s to life now. In the 1960s, when institutionalized changes began happening rapidly and far-reachingly (good God, the terms I quasi-invent), life improved in some places, but in most places, life was just as bleak as before.

But now, things are much better. We still have places where bleakness prevails, but in most places, racism is something people have to mutte under their breath and pull down the shades in their houses to talk about. The instituionalized racism is mostly gone.

By the same token, it's a huge accomplishment that even in a few places, women can read and stand outside without agents of the government beating her up. That she risks beatings from private citizens remains a problem, but on the scale of progress, it's a step.

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

Nonsense. The trade in raw opium and processed heroin has never been stronger in Afghanistan than it is now. In exchange for about $90 million American, the Taliban had used their notoriously effective enforcement methods to pretty well eliminate the Afghan poppy program, because they felt it was immoral and because the US was paying them to do it.

Now, with the advent of the U.S. intervention, hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of heroin per year springs again from the long-dormant poppy fields.

Free enterprise - it's the American way!

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I was gonna bring that up, yeah. Good thing we have the War on Drugs!