WOW, thank you, thank you, and thanks to the writer of that article. I already knew a good bit of what he says, but it makes the situation of the Afghanis perfectly clear and lays out in the starkest terms what is really going on and what is at stake. I hope to God that this information is before those who are in the process of making decisions and that they are giving due attention to it.
It may be that the right way to root out bin Laden and the Taliban will have to be by ground troops airdropped or something (if the Pakistanis don't cooperate) and that will mean terrible American casualties, since it's a notoriously inhospitable place, as the Brits and Russians learned to their cost. So those who are now crying, "War is hell," meaning, "Too bad, it will have to be hell on the Afghans", will learn that it will be hell on us as well, maybe more so. But it has to be done -- there will never be any security any more, ever, if it isn't. (This presuming that bin Laden really is the culprit, for which the proof is not yet forthcoming, but which I also believe is the case.)
