Stardate 20011006.0711 (On Screen): Sometimes when an enemy does things which seem to make no sense, I find myself suspecting that they're crazy like a fox (engaging in disinformation), or that their cultural point of view is so different from mine that I can't understand their rationale. But sometimes it is simply an indication that they are bumblers. I'm coming to believe that the leadership of the Taliban are simply inept, and this story is an example. They criticize the US for making plans to drop food to Afghan refugees. (!) The Foreign Ministry released a statement that said that
There is no doubt that the real objective of such propaganda by the United States is to defuse the anger of the Afghan people against it. With such tactics, it wants to tell the Afghan people that it does not have any enmity against the Afghans. Well, yes.
You bet your sweet ass. We're not
fighting against the Afghan people; we're only fighting against the Taliban. Apparently that's cheating; we're not acting like the monsters that the Taliban want us to act like, so that they can whip up patriotic ferver among their people against us.
Rather than making air drops, they think we should bring the food in by convoy on the ground. You bet; right where it is concentrated and can be attacked and stolen by Taliban troops and our people killed or taken prisoner. Then they remove any shred of identification of its source and distribute it themselves and take the credit, or they simply keep it. Great plan. This is another tacit admission by the Taliban that the propaganda war is succeeding admirably in eroding their support among the Afghan people. (discuss)
Update: Mullah Omar again tries to claim that bin Laden could not have been involved in the WTC bombing. His reason? "No one will commit suicide on the orders of another." I gather he's never heard of the Kamikazes.
