Taliban Attack Themselves

When we like them, they are called “tribal elders”. But we don’t, exactly the same individuals are called “the Taliban”. The present Afghan government is busily banning music, Bollywood films and imported Indian soap operas from the television, despite their huge viewing figures. Not like the Taliban, then?

Mind you, look at the Saudi, Kuwaiti and UAE allies of Hillary Clinton (a woman, for pity’s sake) and George Waterboarding Bush against a country with more women than men at university, and with the most acclaimed cinema in the world today. Compared to them, there is plenty that is positively benign about what is still, for now, Afghanistan’s Taliban Lite.