Unfortunately we won’t be leaving them to their own fate. We’ll be leaving them to infect our fate in perpetuity.
We’ve got about two choices here. Encourage the Taliban to enter the 21st century with the rest of civilization, or reduce their numbers.
I vote for option B as long as that number is 0.
A little education instead of nuclear brain surgery applied in the right locales not so long ago might have made it a bigger mess for all of us in the long run.. but it also might have gotten the job done a lot quicker.. and greatly reduced the likelihood of future reinfestation. who knows, a small nuke at Bora Bora, glaze a few high mountain valleys in Waziristan.. ya never know.. but you can be sure someone will have to pass thru there again.. history repeats itself.. and then some.. this place has been a ‘rhoid on the rump of humanity and then some..
Think about it - what kind of culture has fathers and uncles killing children based on pride? What culture - other than Muslim - allows sex and marriage - with children? What culture other than Muslim is so thin skinned they MURDER cartoonists and journalists who 'wound' their big fat egos?
There are nice Muslims - good people who love their families like we do - but they're under the thumb of a belief system that's every psychopath's wet dream.