In 2003, twenty years ago this month, President George W. Bush’s America invaded the Iraq of Saddam Hussein.   Saddam Hussein was a very evil man; who had started wars against his neighbors Iran and Kuwait.   Saddam means " the one who confronts”; and he lived up to his given name.  He was evil before birth; his birth mother, feeling the Devil’s spawn within her, threw herself down a flight of stairs in order to abort Saddam. Alas, the Saddam version of ROSEMARY’S BABY survived. The Devil is    a powerful ally.   In his youth, Saddam had been a working man. Smart and ambitious, he hated the governing elite; so he joined the Baath Socialist Party; a party which advocated the union of the Arab states. It was a party of educators, academicians and intellectuals, with one working man, Saddam.   The ruler of Iraq was  Abd al-Karim Qasim, a military man who had made his bones leading a revolution which overthrew the pro-Western government of King Faisal II (the son of the character play

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 picture below).   America’s