As this Blog is being written, the Taliban is engaged in a victorious blitzkrieg across Afghanistan, seizing territory, cities and people. It has out-generaled the American backed corrupt government in Kabul. During the first Taliban government, northern Afghanistan remained an anti-Taliban stronghold, through its entire tenure. Taliban prowess was confined to the south, Pashtun areas.   This time, the Taliban, in a series of brilliant strategic moves  attacked and over ran northern  Afghanistan first, eliminating the possibility of  an anti-Taliban bastion to further advances.   Afghan soldiers are being slaughtered after they surrender, Afghan men are being hung from lamp poles before trial, Afghan girls are being forced into marriages with Taliban soldiers; Afghan girls are being denied access to schools, or places of employment. Women have been shot on the street for wearing short skirts; and women have been whipped for talking to men on the street( see...