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I see it reported that the Afghan government has struck a deal with the Taliban to return to a more conservative/Islamic education in exchange for the Taliban stopping attacks on state schools.

Who's the winner here - Afghan girls trying to get an education? America and our war? The Taliban?

Meanwhile in Pakistan there are thousands of Islamic madrasas (extreme religious schools). One was raided recently and 54 'students' were released who had been "kept in chains, beaten by clerics and barely fed" - students as young as 12 years old.

The war in Iraq is over.... the war on beards continues.

"Bin Laden was caught in Pakistan by investigation and science"

Or perhaps more precisely murdered by an invading foreign country with no precence or legal right.

Who are the US to be judge, jury(?) and executioner with impunity. Where do they stop, Egypt, Syria, Europe?

Frankly why aren't those that were involved from teh top extradited to Pakistan and Afghanistan for trials of invasion, kidnap and murder!

I'm not suggesting any leftisim here but such dissmisal of legal protocals is frankly international dictatorship and anything but democracy or enlightened humanism.