Do you have any evidence? Or just an overactive imagination?
In my opinion your speculation is mistaken. It took the Taliban 20 years to get rid of us, and they aren’t stupid enough to provoke us like that.
I base my speculations not on the Taliban, but on the fear of those nearly trapped in Kabul by the Taliban. Fear is a motivating factor here.
What better way to spare yourself and family than to offer up a captured Western? The Taliban has been publicly executing any government officials and security members in Cities and Towns that have fallen to them accroading to those who have made their way to Kabul.
“In my opinion your speculation is mistaken. It took the Taliban 20 years to get rid of us, and they aren’t stupid enough to provoke us like that.”
Hmm. Let’s see. For almost 8 of those years, Bush was president. He was no great shakes, but the Taliban knew they couldn’t get away with too much as long as he was president.
For 4 years, Trump was President.
Even under Obama, they were somewhat limited by the Republicans having Congress for many of his years as president, and it took him a little bit to switch out top military people for his own.
Now that Biden is president and the Demonrats hold Congress and together they are systematically going about destroying the United States, why would the Taliban be afraid of provoking us exactly?
If anything, Biden, China, the Mullahs in Iran, name another enemy, would pressure them to provoke us so that Biden can order the military into a suicide mission.