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It only "looks" like that because this author has decided that Taliban propaganda is truth, and what the Taliban selected the outside world to know was a correct presentation.
As always with these lefties, they never apply objectivity or their own purported principles of looking at the "other side" if looking at the other side would challenge their anti-american bias. I like this guy's derision of CNN's "context" policy--obviously, real context is not what this author wants.