Resurgent Taliban

A new story at Yahoo News shows just how badly the Chimperator's so-called war on terror has failed. Billions and Billions of dollars later, with over 4,000 Americans dead, and tens of thousands horrifically injured, and much of Iraq destroyed, the Taliban is resurgent and the Iraq War has greatly increased the numbers of Muslims worldwide who hate the United States. Heck of a job, Chimpy!! A war crimes trial and execution would not begin to undo the nightmare that the Chimperator and his equally delusional minions have produced. Bush - and Cheney too - physically sicken me. Meanwhile the cretin has no concept of the damage his idiocy and hubris has wrought. He cannot leave office soon enough for me. Here are some story highlights of the growing mess in Afghanistan:

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KABUL, Afghanistan - As the two women hunkered down in the dark, enveloped in blue burqas, they thought the gun-toting Taliban might free them despite accusations they had run a prostitution ring for a U.S. base. Soon after, the militants shot them dead. The recent execution of the two women, witnessed in central Ghazni province by an Afghan journalist who contributes to The Associated Press, reflects the Taliban's resurgent presence in Afghanistan and their growing ability to dispense an extreme version of Islamic justice.

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[A]s the insurgency in Afghanistan turns more violent, the Taliban have once again gained control of significant parts of the country where the weak U.S.-backed central government has little authority. One sign of this comeback is the spread of a shadow justice system, with anecdotal reports of the militants' setting up "courts" and meting out harsh punishments.

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Many reports about Taliban justice come from the southern provinces, where the insurgency is strongest. There are signs, however, that the militants are spreading their tentacles further, and even outside Afghanistan. Taliban-style punishments have become commonplace in the border regions of neighboring Pakistan, where Islamic extremists now hold considerable sway. In June, militants executed two people they accused of spying for the U.S. in front of thousands of cheering supporters in Bajur, a Pakistani tribal region.

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The first thing the Taliban do when they come into an area is to set up courts, said Ahmed Rashid, a journalist and author who has written extensively on the militants.

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Equally upsetting is the fact that the Chimperators strongest domestic supporters are Christianists who want something akin to the Taliban's replacement of civi law with religious law.