The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women?

Christopher Hitchens
The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do...
The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do...
The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do...
The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do...
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The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women? What the article was writing about is that the Taliban were destroying Western culture and values. They were mostly targeting western music and television. I agree that they were a force of reaction, but the article did not prove that they were a force of reaction.

In fact, they proved that they did not really believe in these things. The article was trying to make the argument that the Taliban's actions against music and culture was a force of reaction. However, it did not actually make this argument.

Instead, it was only giving more information about the Taliban's main goal of destroying culture and values in all areas of life. In other words, while some cultural traditions have been destroyed, many more have been preserved by the Taliban

Source: A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation Of Iraq

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