Nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

From the Guardian:

The two-minute video, shot using a mobile phone, shows a burka-clad woman face down on the ground. Two men hold her arms and feet while a third, a black-turbaned fighter with a flowing beard, whips her repeatedly.

“Please stop it,” she begs, alternately whimpering or screaming in pain with each blow to the backside. “Either kill me or stop it now.”

A crowd of men stands by, watching silently. Off camera a voice issues instructions. “Hold her legs tightly,” he says as she squirms and yelps.

After 34 lashes the punishment stops and the wailing woman is led into a stone building, trailed by a Kalashnikov-carrying militant.

Reached by phone, Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan claimed responsibility for the flogging. “She came out of her house with another guy who was not her husband, so we must punish her. There are boundaries you cannot cross,” he said. He defended the Taliban’s right to thrash women shoppers who were inappropriately dressed, saying it was permitted under Islamic law.

There is a video at the link (be warned: not at all pleasant). THIS is what we’re at war with. THESE are the people that the 0bama administration wants to suck up to.

If I could re-write history, that video would have gone a bit different halfway through: A V-22 flanked by AH-64’s would have shown up on site and a platoon of pissed-off Marines would have bailed out and gut-shot evey male son of a bitch there over the age of 15, the woman (and any children on-site) would have been bundled on board, and the video would have ended with the camera laying in the dirt, still running, with the air filled with the sound of the rapidly disappearing V-22… and the sounds of human garbage screaming in pain much like this poor woman.

It is, of course, not too late.

Anyone who claims that all cultures are valid needs to be held down and whipped because they were dressed wrong. Some cultures need to be freakin’ erased. We erased the Nazis. We erased the slaveowner cult in the South (though not as completely as should have been done). We re-wrote a thousand year old religion in Japan. We should have done the same in Afghanistan after 9-11. Istead, we pussed out. And now the diseased filth that is the Taliban is growing again.

Gah.

Mood: pissed off.