Republican week in review, pt. 2

Senate Majority leader Bill Frist recently made a statement where he completely repudiated our only popularly accepted rationale for being at war. Frist "called for efforts to bring the Taliban and their supporters into the Afghan government." No, you read that correctly. Despite all the badmouthing Frist and the rest of the ruling cabal have thrown the Taliban's way since 9/11 (and for good reason, I might add reluctantly), now the leader of the Republican Party in Congress wants to turn back the clock and put Osama bin Laden's former sole political allies back into power. Nice. I guess we're all supposed to forget that little fact, huh? Let alone the Taliban's horridly antediluvian social policies and human rights record . . .
The sad unfortunate fact is that Frist and anyone else who believes this to be a good idea is working in a Cold War mindset, where the US plays kingmaker all over the globe in an effort to promote stability at all costs. In this equation, massive civil repression = a good thing, as long as the Commies, er, the terrorists/drug lords/forces of evil don't "win". You see, only by creating a stable government in Afghanistan, regardless of how or by whom that stability is maintained, can our military withdraw without "losing" another "war". Heaven forbid we invade a sovereign nation, screw up their political system, economy, physical infrastructure, and societal norms and then leave things worse than they were before, right? Oh, wait, make that two sovereign nations. And counting. Nice going, Republican policymakers!