Editor,
Colunmist Michael Carrasco needs get real! For years I have worked with many other people to get the United States to address some of the huge injustices perpetrated by the Taliban. A position I would maintain comes not from "moral relativism" but from U.S. nationalism.
Mr. Carrasco's position that the United States did not address issues with the Taliban out of some whacked out sense of political correctness is completely ahistorical and offensive.
The government party line has always been that it is not the job of the United States to police the world. Not, as Mr. Carrasco suggests, that there is something inherently untouchable about another culture.
The Taliban did not represent an existing or historical culture in either the religious or political sense. It was an aberration on many levels - one that the West has known about and ignored for years, despite many, many requests for censure.
I defy Mr. Carrasco to find a culture that does not contain things of great beauty as well as great atrocities. He seems to find it unpalatable to have to confront that fact within his own cultural tradition while being overly zealous in condemning others for the same thing.
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Perhaps less whining and more historical research is in order.
Sara Walker
UNM alumna
