The story is bleak for those two blindfolded Afghanis on the right. In front of 5,000 onlookers they were dispatched to their respective afterlives by Pakistani Taliban-linked rebels in Pechawar. The LA Times writes:

In a gruesome public spectacle, Taliban-linked militants on Friday executed two Afghan men accused of spying for the United States, slitting their throats and parading their severed heads before a cheering crowd.

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The dual execution was brutal even by the fundamentalist code that prevails in the tribal areas, which lie largely beyond the jurisdiction of the Pakistani government. The killing of alleged spies is not unusual, but their public parading is rare.

Witnesses said the two men were taken to a gathering place by militants from the Taliban-affiliated Jaish-i-Islami group. Armed men first slit their throats, then sprayed the bodies with bullets from automatic rifles, then decapitated the pair to chants of “God is great!”

In the aftermath, celebratory gunfire killed two people and injured six in the frenzied crowd of onlookers, authorities said.

We still suffer the aftermath of Charlie Wilson’s War, aka Operation Cyclone, where we had been willing and able to spend in the billions to help the Afghanistan mujahideen drive the Soviets out of their country, but not politically willing to spend even a small number of millions to keep Afghani children out of the Taliban created schools that brought with them a most harsh form of Sharia law and eventually, via training camps in Afghanistan, led to the attacks of 9/11.

At least for now, the government of Pakistan has had it with the rebels’ incursion into Peshawar and have stopped negotiations and are fighting back. There’s a lot at stake in that increasingly violent and unstable country — and not just as an ally in our fight against al Qaeda in Iraq.

Pakistan has operational nuclear weapons. It’s government simply cannot be allowed to be destroyed or taken over by radical Islamic Jihadis. I’m sure that all options are on the table and constantly being examined in our war-planning rooms. A nuclear-armed Taliban would be an abomination. If slitting the throats and cutting off the heads of a couple of spies gets them all tickled and excited, imagine what sneaking a nuke across the border and leveling an American city would do to them. Of course, then we wouldn’t have to imagine what one of our Boomers out in the Indian Ocean, loaded with multiple-warhead cruise missiles would do to them — we’d see that on CNN 24/7.

Best just to find these guys and kill them now. Lot’s less mess, lot’s less collateral damage.

You listenin’ Barack? Nope — didn’t think so — I imaging you’re to busy plannin’ you little visits to go see ol’ Mahmoud, Fidel, and Hugo.

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