Id say they are both equally terrible in their own respective rights. What irks me most about the Taliban, is that they place people under the impression that they are the the most pure of muslims. Unfortunately, many people accept this false-notion, and then they associate the islamic faith with things such as sharia law, burkas, "infidel-slaying" and other characterized Taliban atrocities.
To show how wrong these Taliban militants are, in terms of what they are doing do innocent civilians of other faiths, or how ill-advised their crusade against other faiths are, here are some excerpts of a post from mine from a month ago:
I hate recycling old posts, but I felt like you might benefit from re-reading it, Scat.
I have some Iranian friends. Despite the government now in power, there are a lot of Iranian people who could support a modern democracy in that country, if they had the chance. I think this means that the popular support for the government in Iran is fairly weak, and without the jackbooted thugs with the guns, there'd be another revolution. They don't see my point very well, generally, no more than a lot of Americans, when I try to tell them about western Machiavellian spy/counterspy psy-op tactics being used today all over the world. But during the build-up to our own civil war, we had Brit agents handing out cash to support abolitionists and secessionists. The method of intervention which Machiavelli recommended for international intrigue and manipulations was just that.
If you want to "manage" a foreign country, you need a right hand and a left hand, both of which just don't know you're using them both. You send your opposing forces into the countrty you want to govern, and let them foment a whole lot of trouble, while smiling and being friendly with the leader of that country. When it gets so bad for him he needs help, you are "there for him". He asks for help, and you go in to "help", and from then on you're in effective control.
Brits are the master puppeteers of all time. Even though we rebeled against their direct rule, and defeated them in an outright attempt to subjugate us in 1812-1814, and even though they overtly tried to break up our Union in the build-up to Lincoln, after the war we became domininated by their financial intrigues, and allowed the Brits to come back in corporate/banking interests which led us into Imperialism ourselves, and then into two useless world wars, and into sixty years' wars since, and running, all in the interests of Britain's continuing world empire.
It is western intrigues of this sort that created the ideological political movements of this century that some thoughtful moslems believe are bad/abusive displays repugnant to their culture and religion. A bunch of thugs on a practically marxist-style purge of anyone who isn't sufficiently miltarized and devoted to "Islam". And of course, all the right kind of media in this country to make war look unavoidable or justified. Just making a lot of good people look bad, and setting us up for another world war. . . . . where, of course, it will be the decent people who are slaughtered/bombed to smithereeens.
Of course, anyone who speaks the obvious truth like this has to be discredited, and called all sorts of bad names. Time to photo-shop for all the idiot pics with tin-foil hats.
Of course nothing much has changed since Napoleon, either. I've got the movie "
Eagle in a Cage" which depicts Napoleon on the isle of St. Helena when the British foreign minister comes to make a deal, to set him free again and set him up with financing once again, to go on another tear through Europe to keep Britain's competitiors too busy fighting each other to give the British any attention.
An Irish doctor, a rebel at heart himself, gave Napoleon something to make his health look questionable, and thwarted the plan.
