[Publius6961]

The wholesale kidnapping of non-Pashtun males aged between 15 and 30 for ‘military’ service smells of panic because the Taliban knows these males belong to hostile ethnic minorities. These are not the actions of men who believe in their own invincibility.

This statement is non-sensical and smacks of disinformation.

It would be the height of stupidity to arm uneducated simple males who ostensibly are as likely to turn against them as not.

Something smells here...

[Bouncer]

It would be the height of stupidity to arm uneducated simple males who ostensibly are as likely to turn against them as not.
I guess you've never been to Texas
I understand the Taliban only represent about 10% of the ethnic/religious minority in Afghanistan. If that's a fact (and I don't know that it is), they would almost have to arm people from a different group to have any sort of army.