NP Afghanistan

[jbor]

millison at online-journalist.com wrote:

> Now, voices all over the world -- if not our own media
> here in the US -- are trying to tell us about the terror and suffering that
> we are causing at the other end of the rainbow, in Afghanistan.

"We"???

The Taliban regime is 'ethnic cleansing' minority Hazara, Uzbek and Tajik
communities. Civilians are burnt alive, whipped with electric cable and
mutilated with knives and bayonets. Some are skinned and their bodies put on
public display as a warning. Massacres are common and Taliban fighters are
said to sometimes daub themselves in their victims' blood before praying.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/specials/intl/refugees/index.html

> How far might the world be
> from a nuclear confrontation similar to that which is said to have made
> such a strong impression on Pynchon in the early 60s?

About 40 years.

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