Bin Laden and the New Unknown in Afghanistan

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/world/asia/08taliban.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=Bin%20Ladens%20death%20and%20the%20new%20&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Sun, May 8, 2011 at 8:17 PM
Subject: re: Bin Laden and the New Unknown in Afghanistan
To: letters@nytimes.com


to the Editor:

   The Taliban will be satisfied with nothing less than imposing their values and mores on the rest of Afghanistan or ruling their own Pashtunistan.  If we are true to the U. N.Charter's creed of "national self-determination of peoples" we should support their secession.  Our business in Afghanistan was only to apprehend the perpetrators of 9/11.  There will never be a better moment at which to declare victory and leave than the present. Our fight with al-Qaeda continues, but it is not with Afghanistan. We got what we came for. Thank you and goodbye. We'll pay for the broken furniture, of course.

Barry Haskell Levine