Taliban Irony Watch
With a story like this, we'd usually subject you to an extended post about how abusing language in UN-sponsored forums (Durban: "Jews are the new Nazis", etc) creates an environment where absurdity seems normal. But you know what? We think that the Taliban are just really stupid:
A bomb ripped through a bus in southern Afghanistan on Friday killing 14 civilians as the Taliban, accusing NATO forces of genocide, threatened to step up already rising suicide attacks. "We want to inform the foreign forces and their slaves that their defeat is inevitable in Afghanistan," the Islamist group's one-legged military commander, Mullah Dadullah, told Reuters by satellite phone from a secret location. "The Taliban's mujahideen are ready to fight until death and in the coming days will increase their activities and suicide attacks to such an extent that the infidel forces will not get a chance to rest," he said.
We'll skip over the whole "why this guy has Reuters on speed-dial" thing and content ourselves with pointing out the sheer gorgeousness of indiscriminate murder as an objection to genocide. "Increase their activities" - whatever. Ramadan is over, they'll run out of steam soon enough.
A bomb ripped through a bus in southern Afghanistan on Friday killing 14 civilians as the Taliban, accusing NATO forces of genocide, threatened to step up already rising suicide attacks. "We want to inform the foreign forces and their slaves that their defeat is inevitable in Afghanistan," the Islamist group's one-legged military commander, Mullah Dadullah, told Reuters by satellite phone from a secret location. "The Taliban's mujahideen are ready to fight until death and in the coming days will increase their activities and suicide attacks to such an extent that the infidel forces will not get a chance to rest," he said.
We'll skip over the whole "why this guy has Reuters on speed-dial" thing and content ourselves with pointing out the sheer gorgeousness of indiscriminate murder as an objection to genocide. "Increase their activities" - whatever. Ramadan is over, they'll run out of steam soon enough.
