Just a quick point. This is far from the end as we all know. That is what worries me - Afghanistan is only the start and this will not bring the fight for justice any nearer to a conclusion.
Also I am not in the least suprised that the Taliban fell so quickly. Their entire governmental budget for one year (not even military budget but the entire thing) is one tenth of the cost of one B52 bomber. How long did we expect them to hold out? Bush, Blair etc had planned for this eventuality i.e. the Taliban falling quickly with minimal fuss and us still not having a clue about how to catch bin Laden. That is why for the last God knows how long they have been saying that this is only the beginning. For the forseable future they will continue to trample on civil liberites and kill people. Hopefully we might have something to show for it, but I strongly doubt it myself.
Also, sorry to do this again but there was a classic cartoon in Private Eye basically summing up what Ziroc said above. It had an Afghanistan sign post with one side saying:
Kabul, Paridise.
And the other side pointing in the opposite direction saying:
Anywhere but Kabul, some kind of life.
Also I feel the need to point out that the Northern Alliance are quite a long way up Amnesty International's list of "Not very nice people". They are in fact some distance higher up it than the Taliban truth be told.
Already the Warlords of the NA have requested coalition troops to protect themselves from the other warlords
What kind of Pandora's box have we opened here?