Taliban Resurgence and the Upcoming Afghan Election

In my previous post I take on Chris Hitchens' review of F9/11. Well, here's yet another example of how much worse the situation is in Afghanistan than Hitchens would have us believe.
By the way, does anyone else think that Hitchens just uses a bunch of 10-cent words and dense prose to mask what a dumbass he really is?
Anyway, its stuff like this that Chris fails to mention:

Blast Kills 2 Afghan Women on Election Workers' Bus
By CARLOTTA GALL

Published: June 27, 2004


KABUL, Afghanistan, June 26 - Two Afghan women were killed, and at least 11 more people were wounded Saturday morning when a bomb ripped through a bus carrying women working as election registration workers in the eastern city of Jalalabad. A 5-year-old girl was among the wounded.

It was the most serious attack to date on Afghan election workers who are seeking to register millions of people across the country for September's elections.

A Taliban spokesman immediately claimed responsibility for the attack in a phone call to Reuters, saying the Taliban had warned people not to take part in an election process intended to strengthen the American-backed government.

But we should be fair...they're going to have a highway soon, and then I'm sure things will be a lot better.