Must you demonize the enemy?

The new bishop to the armed forces has apologised over comments he made about how the Taliban could be admired for their "conviction to their faith".

The Right Reverend Dr Stephen Venner said his words had been taken out of context by the Daily Telegraph. "I'm not trying to support the Taliban," he told the BBC. "At the moment what they are doing is evil."

... "There's a large number of things that the Taliban say and stand for which none of us in the West could approve, but simply to say therefore that everything they do is bad is not helping the situation," he told the paper.

- Excerpted from a BBC News article

To provide a little Canadian context, the same might be said about Berlin, Ontario being renamed Kitchener, Ontario during World War I as part of an attempt to distance the country from any past connection with Germany.