[Unam Sanctam]

The downside is that we are trying to build a stable, human rights-abiding democracy in Afghanistan, not a Taliban/Al Qaeda Islamofascist state. What good does it do to give propaganda to the Taliban?

[Lion in Winter]

Every darn thing we do in Afganistan bad or good is proppaganda for those jerky talibans.

[Prime Choice]

The downside is that we are trying to build a stable, human rights-abiding democracy in Afghanistan, not a Taliban/Al Qaeda Islamofascist state. What good does it do to give propaganda to the Taliban?

The Taliban only need point to the U.S. major media as "proof" of our "decadence." To suggest that one bikini-clad woman is going to be a propaganda coup de grace is just silly.