Stardate 20011115.0918 (On Screen): Robert Fisk is at it again. I suppose I could dissect this article like
I did the last, but what's the point? He laments that the Northern Alliance is being reasonably merciful to other Afghans who are changing sides, but are tending to slaughter foreigners who came to meddle in the affairs of Afghanistan. Which may well be true.
But it occurred to me: isn't this the kind of thing that the multiculturalists tell us we're supposed to tolerate? That is the Afghan way, and it always has been. Their culture is different than ours; neither better nor worse, just different. And we have to respect their culture, don't we? If their tradition is to murder foreign invaders, who are we as liberal multiculturists to say that they are wrong? After all, we were supposed to tolerate how the Taliban would whip women who uncovered any skin, and how they cut off the hand and foot of anyone who transgressed certain laws; it's their way. We were not permitted to condemn them for that because it indicated cultural intolerance on our part. (To be punished by indoctrination sensitivity training, of course.) So should we not tolerate the traditions of the Northern Alliance as well? (discuss)
