_GR_, 2001

[Musashi Miyamoto]

Jbor wrote:

Doug, it was the Taliban who refused to negotiate. The U.S. simply asked
that Osama be turned over, which was a reasonable demand. That the Taliban
refused to accede to this request, made on several separate occasions
through various diplomatic initiatives, proved the regime's complicity. They
declared war on the U.S., after all.

Had the Taliban handed over Osama then no military action against them would
have occurred. That would have been a great pity, because the Taliban
leaders are monsters, and by putting them down the West is doing the Afghani
people a huge favour.

I, HM, respond:

If Cuba, a country with whom we have less than cordial relations, asked the
USA to extradite Dick Cheney to Cuba to stand trial for an atrocious crime,
what would we do? If we asked for evidence of Cheney's guilt, and Cuba told
us that there was overwhelming evidence against him that China, Vietnam,
Libya and Afghanistan have seen, but that for security reasons can't be
shown to US officials or, of course, the public in general, how would we
respond? Oops, my bad! Cuba isn't a superpower.