Dangerous Logic

Yesterday the Daily Caller posted a story about a statement made by National Public Radio host John Hockenberry.  Mr. Hockenberry stated, “The Taliban has never been an enemy of the United States. They don’t love us in Afghanistan, but they’re not sending planes over to New York or to the Pentagon and it seems to me much more broadly that the debate needs to happen is what is the sort of multi-state strategy for dealing with rogue nations of all kinds. Yemen is about to fall apart. You’ve got Somalia problems. The idea that terrorists just go to Afghanistan and launch weapons at the United States it seems in 2011 is an absurdity.”

I realize that Al Qaeda sent the planes on September 11, 2001, but they were allowed to operate freely under the Taliban government.  There was a mutual animosity toward western freedom.  To ignore the role the Taliban played in facilitating September 11 is to rewrite history.  The Taliban were part of a repressive government supporting the idea of a world-wide caliphate.  They are the enemies of all democracies, including America.  If they are allowed to regain power in Afghanistan, we can expect a repeat of September 11 in the not-too-distant future.