Taliban no more terrorists?

[nikhil25]

Re: Taliban no more terrorists?

@CM

Your reading comprehension is either addled by your grasp of the English language or your personal prejudices. Nobody wants the Taliban in power yet that is what the Americans are doing. Everybody here wants the Taliban eliminated as a fighting force.

i asked you repeatedly how you think that will happen in a post-US afghanistan?

This thread is a perfect example. I have said this 3 times so far and you still don’t get it. Be it the TTP or the Taliban, a vast majority of posters want the eliminated. Yet the opposite is happening.

i explained my issue with this comment in detail above and you have chosen to ignore completely. you have now snuck in the TTP to validate this comment. clearly we are not talking about opinion on TTP. the people in question unanimously despise the TTP (remember good taliban/bad taliban theory) so that is irrelevant

in any case, i am not even talking about being pro-taliban. from the beginning i am specifically talking about people who may be anti-taliban (even afghan taliban) in principle but relish the schadenfreude so much that they would still rather cheer them on in the war regardless of what that may mean for the afghan people.

If the US objective was to remove the Taliban from power why are they negotiating with them now?

there is a simple answer to this question. the taliban have already been ousted from power but consensus is that for a lasting durable peace, current taliban members may need to be involved in the political process. this would mean the taliban would cease to exist as a military force and key leaders be brought into a representative government/parliament. this vision is obviously nothing like a theocratic taliban regime similar to what previously existed.

whether this is feasible or not is another debate entirely. i am of the view that it may not be feasible at all. in that case the only real losers will be the afghan people.