About that "newer, softer Taliban"

It didn’t take long for the eunuchs at PBS to embrace the Taliban propaganda. Fresh off kicking Joe Biden’s ass, the Taliban used the left-wing press as its muse to spread a message of hope.

Now Taliban representatives are being welcomed from Beijing to Moscow, where Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov last month called them “reasonable people.” The group has a social-media presence and responsive media team that is saying all the right things: It wants an inclusive government, it won’t take revenge on political opponents, diplomats are safe and investors won’t have trouble: “No one should worry about their life,” it said in a statement over the weekend.

Why they even offered amnesty to their foes. Such sweet guys.

Or maybe not.

On the same day the Taliban promised to honor women’s rights, they killed a woman for not wearing a burqa. Women would be allowed to participate in government “if they adhere to Islamic law.”

Strict Islamic Law. You know, the law that allows the Taliban to kill women for looking at them the wrong way.