Taliban in Charge in Afghanistan?

Who is in charge, who is on first, who is Taliban, who is friend, who is fiend?

Where's the exit strategy from this strange land?

clipped from www.commondreams.org Law Will Let Afghan Husbands Starve Wives Who Withhold Sex BAMIYAN, Afthanistan - An Afghan law which legalised rape has been sent back to parliament with a clause letting husbands starve their wives if they refuse to have sex. Afghan women attend a gathering in support of presidential candidate Mirwais Yasini for the August election, in Kabul July 7, 2009. An Afghan law which legalised rape has been sent back to parliament with a clause letting husbands starve their wives if they refuse to have sex. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (AFGHANISTAN ELECTIONS POLITICS) President Hamid Karzai ordered a review of the legislation after The Independent revealed that it negated the need for consent within marriage. President Barack Obama described it as "abhorrent", Gordon Brown said Britain would "not tolerate" it, and other Nato countries threatened to withdraw their troops unless the legislation was drastically re-written.