That’s what she said.
No kids is a penalty ?
The Brits and the Soviet Union also failed to impose their ideologies onto Afghanistan, and I'm sure those governments were more brutal than ours. After all, our troops were told to look the other way when homosexual pederasts were going about their evil business.
The solution is to treat the Taliban like we treat the Chinese: ignore their domestic policies, thank them for eliminating the opium poppies, conduct mutually beneficial trade with them, and hope that over the long term they become a more enlightened nation.
Bellum Interruptus ?