News services around the world got the story wrong this time by not being aware of the Taliban deficiencies in written English.
Taliban fighters across Pakistan and Afghanistan have been carrying tremendously heavy caches of weapons, explosives and ammunition on foot across rugged terrain. In a recent mass email shared among the Taliban faithful, a call was put out to send jock straps, weight belts and trusses to the strained pelvises of Taliban weapons mules.
News services across the world misinterpreted the word trusses and thought the Taliban were declaring a TRUCE. Western officials in their usual leap to machismo expressed extreme skepticism about a Taliban truce.Macho-in -Chief GW Bush declaimed: "Truce is just another way for those sneaky foreigners to hate our freedom!"
The Newly elected and freshly layed French President crooned:"Now that I have Carla,who gives a mierde!" Presidential candidates across the US felt compelled to chip in their 2 cents. Mormon Mitt Romney, fresh from his disfenestration, declared: "The Taliban and the Democrats are one and the same!"
Republican winner, John McCain said:"He could never forgive the Taliban for torturing him in the Kabul La Quinta...". Obama urged negotiations with the Taliban to make sure that truce was really what they wanted and Mrs Clinton,the only one to understand the Taliban message in Farsi,quipped:" I only wish I had thought of a truss when old wild Bill was in the White House!".
