The war we should have fought

It's sad to watch what the criminal incompetence of our President is doing to other people. Now, a leader of the women's movement in Afghanistan has been murdered:

Safia Amajan promoted women's education and work - a fairly ordinary job in most places - but in the Afghanistan of a resurgent Taliban it was a dangerous path to follow. She was a target, and yesterday she was gunned down outside her home.

Five years after the "liberation" of Afghanistan by the US and Britain, with promises of a new dawn for its downtrodden women, her murder was a bloody reminder of just how far the country is slipping back into a land of darkness.

If Bush had focused on the war we should have fought instead of the one in Iraq, things might be different. But, given the incompetence of this group of fools, it probably wouldn't have been.