Fundamentalists Rise Again in Afghanistan.

Why on earth are we fighting there? Will it take ten years to realize that it is futile? The longer we have troops there, the more they will be hated.
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Karzai is a puppet and has no power. The 'bad guys' in the mountains have ten times the money reserves of the so-called government. Just another blunder by those who don't understand other cultures.
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Fundamentalists Rise Again in Afghanistan.
The Taliban were overthrown five years ago, but Afghanistan's hopes for democracy are faltering, and now interest in fundamentalism -- including draconian Islamic "religious police" -- is growing again. What can the international community do?
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Afghans are increasingly demanding new ways to establish order. One current idea of reinstalling the religious police has broad support among the people as well as politicians. Even President Karzai supports the idea: He wants to create a "Department for the Preservation of Good Manners and the Prevention of Bad Habits."
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Role of the Religious Police
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Islamic religious police have existed in Afghanistan for decades, but under the Taliban they became radical and feared by the public at large. The religious police enforced old-fashioned penalties to uphold the sharia law. Infidelity was punished by stoning; theft by chopping off the right hand. A wet shave or listening to music could provoke a whipping, and women had to cover themselves in burqas.
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Despite these experiences, 71 percent of around 300 passersby questioned in a survey conducted by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Kabul favored reinstalling the religious police. Even among the 33 women questioned, only 18 percent opposed bringing back the religious police. A full 88 percent of the 40 police officers surveyed were in favor of behavior watchdogs. Support is even higher in the countryside, presumably, than in Kabul.
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Faced with this groundswell of public opinion, politicians are likely to approve a return to religious police. Aref Noorzai, a member of parliament, expects approval from 80 percent of his colleagues.
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http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,436046,00.html