False:
in an internationally recognized sovereign country, toIIRC, only Pakistan and Saudi Arabia (maybe one more?) recognized the Taleban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.
provide proofs before they (the Taliban) decides what they will do,
spoke volume.
And while I too am cognizant of the evil effects of most mob-actions, and the malleability of the Murican Peepul (and all others) to demagoguery - I find your list here, to be really reaching, as in your ref to "forgetting about the starving".
That impending fact has been regularly on the agenda of even our Valley-speak inane talking News-heads since square 1.
There are internal matters - just say 'Ashcroft' - of ominous local trend, and there are bound to be some stupidities in the actions to date. But not on the scale of arrant knavery you portray: that is more akin to agitprop of earlier days and re Vietnam -- where we really Were being stupid and arrogant beyond belief.
And we have not yet exorcised That Demon, despite pronouncing it dead on the usual Holidays.. Many are in denial still. We have factions who'd like to duplicate that atrocity in Afg. Thus far they are not calling the shots.
If they do, we'll talk again.
Ashton