Why We Must Fight In Afghanistan  Jerry Coffee Wednesday -
November 18, 2009 | Share Del.icio.us  To be (in Afghanistan) or
not to be? That is the question. And I submit that it must be
the former.  The Taliban came into power after spearheading the
defeat of the occupying Soviet army.At first they were received
enthusiastically by the Afghan people as"liberators” from a
brutal occupying power, but as they consolidated their victory
by the ruthless elimination of Afghanistan’s more moderate
leadership - with whom they had fought the Russians side by side
- they quickly imposed sharia law. Before they knew it, the
Afghan people found themselves under a more repressive and
inhumane regime than had been imposed under the Russians. The
Taliban became the very essence of fanatical Islamic extremism.
After Sept. 11, 2001, the Taliban continued harboring Osama bin
Ladin and the al Qaida leadership, who confessed to
orchestrating the attacks on America. When they refused our
demands to turn them over, the U.S. milit