We are not trying to help the Taliban, we are trying to get rid of the Taliban. The Taliban have absolutely NO historical significance in Afghanistan. They are a criminal enterprise from Pakistan, supported by the ISI. Really they are invaders. IMHO, being the criminals that they are they are looking for power and control of those poppy fields to enrich themselves and to finance their criminal enterprise.
You refer to “Pakistan” and “Afghanistan” as though those terms have any meaning to many of the people living there. Those concepts are so abstract to the animals in this video; I don’t think they have any interaction with a central government at all over the village level (the village head might, but then only to the next level - provincial). That is part of why this war is difficult to prosecute for the US, and why Pakistan itself can offer little help; many people in the remote areas of these countries live as though there is no border at all, and it isn’t like the LA riots where you send the creatures home by stopping mail delivery (especially of welfare checks) or cutting off power or something like that. The governments do nothing for these people, and the people don’t acknowledge those governments (see Karzai).
I know.
“The Taliban ............enterprise.”
True, but irrelevant to the thrust of my argument.
My point is that the MAIN problem is ISLAM, not just the Taliban.
The Talibanistas are doing nothing but putting into practice what every orthodox Muslim believes and what Islamic teachings dictate.
The Taliban, the Muslim Brotherhood, etc, are mere reflections of many maniacal movements generated by Islam over its entire history.
And scenes like this are replicated a thousandfold in every Islamic country, including those where no Taliban exists.
I think we should deal with Muslim threats by Blitzkrieg tactics, moving in, destroying their military and infrastructure and then pulling out. By doing so we will teach them a painful lesson without subjecting our troops to a mindless, bloody, costly, and ultimately unprofitable adventure in trying to civilize savages.
They could much better be employed on the Mexican Border right now.