Savages

Jesus Christ. Is there anything redeeming about what's left of this "culture"?

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A shot rings out, but the burqa-clad woman sitting on the rocky ground does not respond.

The man pointing a rifle at her from a few feet away lets loose another round, but still there is no reaction.

He fires a third shot, and finally the woman slumps backwards.

But the man fires another shot.

And another. And another.

Nine shots in all.

Around him, dozens of men on a hillside cheer: "God is great!"

Officials in Afghanistan, where the amateur video was filmed, believe the woman was executed because two Taliban commanders had a dispute over her, according to the governor of the province where the killing took place.

Both apparently had some kind of relationship with the woman, said Parwan province governor Abdul Basir Salangi.

"In order to save face," they accused her of adultery, Salangi said.

Then they "faked a court to decide about the fate of this woman and in one hour, they executed the woman," he added.

Both Taliban commanders were subsequently killed by a third Taliban commander, Salangi said.

Maybe, in our eventual departure from (sigh) that place, we can airlift the women and children -- and whatever adult males there are that haven't lapsed into abject barbarity -- the hell out of there. It's hard to say what else can be done; for every legit Taliban thug you kill, five or ten more crop up. Schools and roads get sabotaged and bombed. So perhaps removing their chattel and their sex toys will precipitate the final lapse into desuetude, the elimination of a foul mindset.

Behind every great fortune is a great crime, and behind every great civilization is a lot of shit to apologize for. But for all of our shortcomings, we don't do this....this horrific, scummy parody of a society, where a faceless vagina in a burlap sack is dumped into a soccer stadium to be shot like a piece of meat. It's like something out of a bad post-apocalyptic novel.

May the perpetrators this and so many other crimes -- against humanity, against decency -- be plagued by long and excruciating cases of ass herpes.