Wow. Fucking
seriously?
In 1996 Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai, former president of Afghanistan, was caught by the Taliban trying to flee the country. He was dragged into the street and lynched. After effectively taking over the country, they cement their rule by subjugating the population and murdering those who resist.
There's also the matter of
UN resolution 1267. The date is 1999. Those are terrorist sanctions.
And let's not rule out their actions while occupied by Russia -- even if they weren't the group known as the Taliban yet, it was the same human beings. And just because they were going after Russia didn't make it any better.
Oh, and of course, the fact that we asked them to turn over Osama bin Laden and they refused. Which, if you'd actually been reading my posts, has been my point all along.
I reject the implication that the Taliban can't be terrorists unless they attack the US or its people. That's
deplorable. What the hell, man?
I reject the implication that their actions before we invaded don't count, or just as bad, that you didn't know what they were.
I reject the implication that I designated them terrorists because they, as an un-elected militant group that ruled by threats force and murder before we arrived, were taking back "their" country.
And I reject the implication that, even if they hadn't been caught sheltering and aiding known terrorists groups before we arrived (which they were, the UN was resolutionly clear), that directly, specifically and publicly siding with and protecting Osama bin Laden
after 9/11 wasn't enough to label them as terrorists all by itself. This wasn't "we agree with what he did" it was "we're siding with him with our very lives".
Where the hell did this even come from? What's
wrong with you, man?