No you need to understand that the Taliban are the indigenous people of Afghanistan. They don’t come from Libya or Somalia or Saudi Arabia. If you kill 1000 of them another 1000 just get recruited. So when the Afghan military kills Taliban they are killing Afghanis. Their heart just isn’t in it.
The President of Afghanistan controls Kabul and Jalalabad. The war lords control the hinterlands. Its a big patchwork. There are basically three job paths in the country at present. Grow opium, join the military or join the Taliban.
We are not going to wipe out the Taliban and we are not going to change Afghanistan.
We need to leave.
I see: so our two lady respondents think that all Aghanis are Taliban (and my extension, all Afghan women don’t want to go to school and prefer full-length burkas.
Yeah, OK, sure.
But I reiterate - when the Taliban were in control, they provided the training grounds and staging bases for al Qaeda. You two all ready for that bunch to resume operations?