LET'S GLOAT! Christopher Hitchens says "Ha ha ha to the pacifists" in The Guardian. One of the most irritating mantras of the peaceniks in the past few weeks has been the faux contrast-- "The poorest nation on earth is being attacked by the richest." As though warfare should be means-tested. Hitchens offers some contrasts of his own:

What about, "Afghanistan, where the world's most open society confronts the world's most closed one"? "Where American women pilots kill the men who enslave women." "Where the world's most indiscriminate bombers are bombed by the world's most accurate ones." "Where the largest number of poor people applaud the bombing of their own regime."

Meanwhile, the BBC reports that Afghan women find new freedom in the newly liberated Kabul. And The Washington Post reports on how one man in Kabul feels about his fleeing oppressors:

"These Taliban are dogs!" he said. Then he added, "I'm sorry I abused the dogs, because a dog is a very faithful animal."