An advocate for women's rights was shot as she got out of her car in Kandahar. The murderers drove off on motorcycles. The Taliban took credit for the incident. Credit? This underscores my previous posting.

The Taliban are clearly telling us that they will have no truck with us telling them what to do. Their way of life is founded on female subjugation and we can like it or lump it. They will fight against all odds and die for the cause. What are we to make of it?

For my part, I would like to see them all in the deepest part of hell, and these murderers hung by the heels and used for target practice, but my anger and that of millions of others will not avail to that end.

Do the men of the Taliban really want their own daughters to be illiterate and become virtual slaves to husbands who are free to roam? Do they base this philosophy on religious belief? After all, it was Eve who cajoled Adam to partake of the Forbidden Fruit despite God's warning. So women are unworthy and must suffer? And what Fruit was that? It was from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Obviously, ignorance is bliss. And don't forget, God made women smaller and physically weaker than men, so isn't the conclusion obvious? Don't get me started on religion.

Until quite recently, Catholic women, at the altar, vowed to obey their husbands. Can we therefore pretend to look down our noses at the Taliban? Why do we have the need for women's lib organizations in our own culture? Look to the beam in thine own eye.

So again, what do we do about Afghanistan? Fight on, see our soldiers bleed and die? Give it up as useless and leave, let them live in their misery? I don't have a simple answer. If you do, then step up to the plate and let me hear it.