It seems the administration's plans to bring democracy to Afghanistan have been successful. The Times of London notes that the "Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which was set up by the Taliban to enforce bans on women doing anything from working to wearing nail varnish or laughing out loud, is to be re-created by the government in Kabul." Good job all round guys, and I mean guys.
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The poet, philologist and bishop Esaias Tegnér (1782-1846) once wrote,
All bildning står på ofri grund till slutet
Blott barbariet var en gång fosterländskt
"All our learning must always stand on a slavish foundation
Barbarism is our single true heritage"
I thought my pet was a meerkat, but it was in fact a mere cat.
Movie: Wild Tales. A collection of unconnected short wry films about revenge. Grade: pass.
I didn't know there were such plans (which distinguishes Afghanistan from Iraq). The US war plan in Afghanistan was, as I recall it, simple and obvious: find the people ran Al-Qaeda and bomb the hell out of them.
Here comes the new boss, same as the old boss...