It isn't. Al Qaida was, and they've been pretty much eliminated. Now we're sitting there having those we're supposed to be turning the security over to turn their guns on our troops. It's not worth it. This massacre is a tragedy but I really don't see where it's our job to solve the Taliban problem.
The Taliban sheltered and hosted Al-Qaeda, taunting the U.S. after the 9/11 attacks, a clear act of War. The Afghan people have proven incapable of appreciating or defending their freedom, they deserve the Taliban. The appropriate response is to put them on notice that the next bit of trouble out of their hell hole, they will be reading by oil lamps and drinking out of hand pumped wells for two generations and tilling their fields with mules. They will travel by ox cart on dirt roads and cross rivers by ferry, because every bridge, every railroad, every petrol facility in Afghanistan will be destroyed.
Al Qaeda has been eliminated? You need to tell that to the people of Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Libya and yes Afghanistan.
The Taliban is NOT related to Afghan culture. The Taliban is a product of the Pakistani Maddrassas. Thousands upon thousands of young children were left orphans throughout the years of war there. The males were taken to Pakistan and put in the Madrassas and taught this ideology. It is all about power and domination, there is nothing religious about it. For all who think that Afghanistan is just a bunch of rocks, there are trillions of dollars in rare minerals in those rocks.
The people of Afghanistan are beat down. The current generation know nothing of peace, they’ve never experienced it in their entire lives. It is as foreign to them as living a life of beheadings is to us.
I am not making excuses for them, but not every Afghani is on board the Taliban. Northern Afghanistan is not as oppressed as Southern, which is predominately Pashtun. My son had to work with the ANA while over there. He said one third was Taliban, one third wanted a check and one third wanted their country back. If we WANTED we could have won this war years ago. However, you can’t play both sides in war. And that is why we have been there so long. Think, we did not try to compromise with the Japanese or the Germans. It was AFTER they surrendered that we sat down with them.