If it were going to govern by extreme rules of sharia and not observe human rights in any meaningful sense, absolutely.

Not exactly tenets of the Baath party. But anyway, I just wanted clarification as to whether you were opposed to the Taliban party, or the former Taliban party's methods of governing, and I got that.

Would you similarly view an electoral victory by the Baath party in Iraq to be a failure of everything we've worked for there?

If it were going to govern by extreme rules of sharia and not observe human rights in any meaningful sense, absolutely.

If the Nazis were still running Germany after WWII, I'd call that failure, too, in case you were wondering. Ditto if the British royal family maintained sovereignty of the USA after the War for Independence.