ISIS was fighting the Taliban? Who do you root for when the Predator takes on the Alien? Maybe we should have let them play some more.
“ISIS was fighting the Taliban?”
They were fighting with al Queda too. They broke off from al Queda a few years ago in a disagreement over tactics, strategy, and who would be boss. They have competed and fought with each other for three or four years, but it looks like ISIS may have to fold back into al Queda this year, when they lose their territory, and have to go covert.
Anybody who tries to muscle in to Afghanistan will have to fight the Taliban. That term has been extended beyond just the original Pakistani surrogates, to cover just about all the loosely aligned Pashtun tribesmen who are engaged in illegal activity (half of Afghanistan’s GDP is from opium poppy - they produce about 90% of the world’s heroin). Most of the Pashtun countryside has powerful gangs who don’t want interference from any Government or outsiders.
For all their downsides, they are not fearful people - they won’t take much crap from anyone.