Listening to Heroes

Afghanistan's RAWA has been involved in principled resistance against the full spectrum of tyrants: Soviet-supported Socialists, US-supported (and later anti-American) Taliban, and now the US+NATO-imposed experiment in totalitarian democracy: an Iran-style Islamic Republic built on the corpses of American soldiers. RAWA are not Objectivists, but they are Enlightenment-based secularists, and in the context of Afghanistan's tribalist-supernaturalist culture, that's a enough to be heroes. They write:

The US "War on terrorism" removed the Taliban regime in October 2001, but it has not removed religious fundamentalism which is the main cause of all our miseries. In fact, by reinstalling the warlords in power in Afghanistan, the US administration is replacing one fundamentalist regime with another... Under the US-supported government, the sworn enemies of human rights, democracy and secularism have gripped their claws over our country and attempt to restore (probably meaning "re-impose" - AR) their religious fascism on our people.

So. One faith-based, sacrifice-based regime supporting another. And from Washington, our gang of elected traitors claims, of all things, that they stand for America.