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12/03/2001 "The Taliban claims infighting and excesses of the United Front prompted people in Kandahar and other ethnic Pashtun provinces to ask them to keep fighting. Considering that tribal warfare and its attended looting and lawlessness helped propel the Taliban to power five years ago, who is to dispute that some Afghans may consider their law and order form of Islam a better alternative? A lack of women's rights, bans on music and other archaic laws may offend westerners but in many parts of Afghanistan such strictures aren't that much of a step backwards." This sounds suspiciously like the excuse given for the German populace's acceptance of the Nazi rise to power: "We ignored the oppression because they gave us law and order." Shame on Allen Pizzy for suggested that law and order makes oppression acceptable! When Kandahar is liberated, I expect that we will see the same thing we saw in Kabul - women shedding their burkas, music being played, men shaving their beards, girls looking forward to an education, food and medical care once again available to the masses. That day cannot come too soon! Let's write to CBS and let them know what we think. Below is the contact information: CBS CBS Feedback - Select yellow Feedback link from bottom of lefthand menu Read more here: Media Research Center CyberAlert, 11/28/2001 When you feel your personal media bias tolerance gauge rising into the red zone, don't throw stuff at the TV screen! Send your suggestion to outrage@fairpress.org! Each week, one hideous example of media bias will be selected for closer examination. Hmmmmmm . . .
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