All Credit To Obama!

Conservatives scoffed, but Obama's efforts to end enhanced interrogation and close Guantanamo someday have yielded results:

The Taliban’s spiritual leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, issued a lengthy directive late last spring outlining a new code of conduct for the Taliban. The dictates include bans on suicide bombings against civilians, burning down schools, or cutting off ears, lips and tongues.

Unfortunately, like Obama the kinder, gentler Taliban is not really hope and change we can believe in:

The code, which has been spottily enforced, does not necessarily mean a gentler insurgency. Although the Taliban warned some civilians away before the assault on the heart of Kabul on Monday, they were still responsible for three-quarters of civilian casualties last year, according to the United Nations.

The Taliban also seems to be taking inspiration from Obama and the Netroots in other areas:

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban have embarked on a sophisticated information war, using modern media tools as well as some old-fashioned ones, to soften their image and win favor with local Afghans as they try to counter the Americans’ new campaign to win Afghan hearts and minds.

...American and Afghan analysts see the Taliban’s effort as part of a broad initiative that employs every tool they can muster, including the Internet technology they once denounced as un-Islamic. Now they use word of mouth, messages to cellphones and Internet videos to get their message out.

Cellphones?  The Taliban is nowhere until they offer the world a chance to be their Facebook friends.

Comments

[Jenny G]

OT:
The Supreme Court has ruled that corporations may spend freely to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, easing decades-old limits on their participation in federal campaigns.

[rse]

Here's the cite to the decision.

LUN

[narciso]

They also use their cellphones to set off their car bombs, so there's that consideration

[Jack is Back!]

Just ordered it for my kindle:

"The Taliban Code" by Dan Brown. All about the symbolism of silly dreams.

[democratsarefascists]

Not just corporations.

Labor, too.

Which means the Mafia is back and stronger than ever, thanks to Obama.

[Neo]

The World Bids Farewell to Obama

German commentators say it is the end of hope.

Talk about far weather friends