Why is it so easy to rage at the Taliban? Why is it so hard to rage at the conditions that gave rise to the Taliban and continue to sustain it—the semi-feudalism, the predatory capitalism, the thousand and one mafias, the relentless machinations of imperialism and the military? How have we the scions of anti-military all of a sudden started pulling at its shirt asking for it to wipe out the Taliban? What is all of this if not intellectual and moral bankruptcy? Reprehensible as the shooting of Malala Yusufzai is, it does not justify imperialist drone attacks on peoples living in tribal areas. Reprehensible as the targeting of a 14-year-old girl is, it does not justify the Pakistan Army’s often indiscriminate operations that have led to the displacement of millions of people. And, reprehensible as the Taliban’s transparently idiotic and self-serving discourse is, it is not Pakistan’s biggest enemy. Pakistan’s biggest enemy is our unwillingness to transcend our own hypocrisies.