Where Evil Flourishes

Afghanistan sheltered and encouraged al Qaeda, the organization that brought us September 11. Afghanistan under Taliban rule gleefully destroyed a world heritage site sacred to a religion other than Islam with explosives. Afghanistan is perhaps the most misogynistic society in the world (although most Persian Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan are anything but friendly to women's rights on the Sunni side and Shia Iran is no paradise for women either). Afghanistan continues to be the world's primary source for the opium poppy, and it is widely rumored that Afghan President Karzai's own brother receives the largest piece of the drug trade lucre. So, it could be said reasonably that Afghanistan is not one of the world's most moral states. When Barack Hussein Obama finally deigned to meet the Dalai Lama, considered one of the world's great moral leaders, after shunning him for a year due to pressure from Red China, the meeting was held discreetly without the ceremony or even dignity usually associated with a US President meeting with one of the world's great religion's leaders. In fact, the Dalai Lama was ushered out the back past the White House garbage pile and this act of humiliation was done in full view of the assembled press to placate Communist China. Then, when the duly elected leader of a US ally, Benjamin Netanyahu last met with Obama for his down dressing and lecture, the press was completely excluded without even a photo opportunity showing the two leaders of two of the nations most threatened by jihadi terror even shaking hands. This was an overt slap in the face not just to Netanyahu but to all those who support Israel. So the leader of a country we had to occupy, running an utterly corrupt nation, Karzai is greeted with the red carpet and feted while decent even morally towering figures are treated like dirt, which only serves to appease, rewards violence, and encourages more. So is the font of evil in Afghanistan or is it in the Oval Office?