and good luck with that. What you see as "differences" that need to be resolved they see in terms of righteousness (them) and wickedness (everybody else). This is something the everyone says about the enemy in every war, but sometimes it's true. They're not interested in what you have to say, your wants & hopes and desires, but only if what people do pleases God, and they have some very strong opinions about that. As far as they're concerned there are no "human rights", only the laws of conduct from the Quaran, as they interpret it. See the 2003 Afghani film OSAMA (a film that couldn't have been made when they had control of the country...) for what the Taliban are all about. You'll love it, it's transgender- about a little girl and her mother who are starving because as women they are not allowed to leave their house, so she dresses up as a boy in order to be able to go out and work, until she gets drafted as a child soldier by the Taliban, but then she gets discovered, and then tried for the heinous sin of walking down the street, and her life is only spared (if you can call it that...) when she is given to some nasty old puke who doesn't have enough property of the female persuasion and wants a thirteen year old wife ("Mmmmmmm, tasty!") to break in...

I would only hope that if kooks like the Taliban ever took over this country some foreign power would come in and stop their oppressive reign before they executed me as an abomination to their God. And if they tried to regain power, as the Taliban are even now attempting to do in Afghanistan, that those foreign troops would try to make sure this didn't happen, and had snipers as good as the guy in the article. I don't rejoice over the killing of anyone, but insane criminals who only want what they want and have no regard for anyone else are hard to sit down and reason with, and using snipers like this is a far more measured response with a lot less wear & tear on the innocent noncombatants than say carpet bombing the whole place would be.

All I can do to make this screwed up world a better place is to pray for peace, to work for the rights of all in my small petition-signing and writing-my-representatives kind of way, and to try not to be a Taliban about it when I find myself in disagreement with someone, to not demonize them in my mind just for the views they hold. But when their actions cross the line into tyranny or genocide then meeting violence with violence is a sad and horrible necessity.
~~~peace, Laika