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After decades of humiliating defeats, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Iraq, Afghanistan, . . - American credibility is in the dog house. But the shooting war is not over. Drones will be launched from “over the horizon” ships using highly unreliable aerial surveillance to home in on their targets. Many US drone operators have left the military vehemently opposed to this type of remote warfare which results in 90 percent of civilian casualties. Taliban fighters are quick to seize the moment persuading the grieving families to “switch sides” and embrace the anti-American crusade. 

Taliban fighters are euphoric over their victory forcing the US military to retreat. Sharia Law is back forcing women to drape in head-to-toe suffocating clothes in the blistering Afghan sun. Music and all forms of entertainment are forbidden. Many budding artists have been forced to smash their instruments fearful they may suffer the wrath of the religious police. Meanwhile, the world greets the excessive cruelty and inhumane customs and policies of the Taliban with a deafening silence. The clear message from the Islamic world from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, . . . and the Taliban is Islamic women are inferior to their male counterparts and serve only for their pleasures and comfort. It is profoundly disappointing that there is a complete absence of a METOO movement in the Islamic world demanding the same rights as men. God did not create women to be abused but to be cherished and honored.