Disenchanted Brothers

And very disenchanted sisters.

So successfully have we "liberated" Afghanistan, that battered wives are setting fire to themselves in order to escape their pitiful existences.

If they happen to belong to those ethnic groups that are Shi'ite, then they can now be raped within marriage without any crime being committed.

Farmers are selling their daughters in order to pay off their debts to the opium barons whom we have supposedly cleared out.

And the "Taliban" are being put, Sinn Fein-like, on the payroll, even though Sinn Fein is an identifiable organisation and subculture, whereas the "Taliban" are simply Pashtun nationalists who are ultraconservative in their Islam, and have no existence apart from the Pashtun as a whole.

Oh, well, clearly it is now all hands on deck against Iran...