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Think of the children

Anglosphere

According to Human Rights Watch, the Taliban and other terrorists attack schools. Breslan was a single dramatic event, but in Afghanistan school children come face to face with terrorism on a regular basis:

Human Rights Watch documented more than 200 attacks on teachers, students and schools since January last year.

It says that recently, such attacks appear to have increased sharply, with more attacks on the education system in the first half of 2006 than in the whole of 2005.

Girl schools suffer the most attacks, which is not surprising considering the Taliban had banned education for girls under its rule.
So realise or remember who we're dealing with in this war: scumbags. People who attack school children to ensure the continuing suppression of women.

How could anyone not be most vigilant and most supportive of any crackdown on these people?

Military gets tough

European Union

There is a small row (still, again, for ever) in the Netherlands over Dutch troops killing Taliban members in the Uruzgan province of Afghanistan. Some members of the Second Chamber are upset they were not informed of the killings before the press was, and some are even upset about the military fighting in the first place, because the official mission is one to rebuild Afghanistan.

I will quickly mention the Srebrenica massacre, before leaving it up to the reader to decide whether it is possible to rebuild a country or do any peace-keeping without a mandate to take hostile actions against any enemy troops, warlords and terrorists active in the area. And whether people making a fuss about military action by army units in a warzone are fit for duty as political representative of a nation.

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