Canadian troops on foot patrol return to Camp Masum Ghar in Panjwaii district, southwest of Kandahar city. Nikola Solic, ReutersHow The Taliban Ends -- Jonathan Kay, National Post
In March, 2004, Israeli soldiers manning the Hawara checkpoint near Nablus witnessed a shocking site: An adolescent Palestinian boy named Abdu lifted up his shirt to reveal a large suicide vest. Everyone braced for an explosion. But instead, the boy froze, and declared to the Israelis that he didn't want to blow himself up.
Abdu (who later turned out to have "developmental problems," according to his parents) kneeled on the ground and appeared terrified. He removed the vest and then was taken into Israeli custody. The entire pathetic spectacle was captured on video. His picture appeared on the front page of the next day's Israeli newspapers, with headlines such as "I wanted virgins in paradise."
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My Comment: I hope (and wish) that Jonathan Kay is right .... but Afghanistan is in such a mess that I doubt that the rosy analysis that Jonathan Kay is trying to comment on will ever happen in my lifetime.