I Know What I Would Do

60 Minutes just had a puff piece on our special forces in Afghanistan, raiding at night to find Taliban.  Makes you proud to be an American, until you read stuff like the following, from the Asia Times:

Sometime in the past few years, Pashtun villagers in Afghanistan's rugged heartland began to lose faith in the American project. Many of them can point to the precise moment of this transformation, and it usually took place in the dead of the night, when most of the country was fast asleep. In the secretive US detentions process, suspects are usually nabbed in the darkness and then sent to one of a number of detention areas on military bases, often on the slightest suspicion and without the knowledge of their families.

This process has become even more feared and hated in Afghanistan than coalition air strikes. The night raids and detentions, little known or understood outside of these Pashtun villages, are slowly turning Afghans against the very forces they greeted as liberators just a few years ago.

Really, what if an occupying power were raiding our homes at night, taking our sons and husbands away? How would we feel? What would we do?

I know what I would do.