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I agree that you have to change the circumstances but I don't agree that it is an ingrained act of desparation on behalf of the Taliban.
This is Taliban strategy.
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They kidnapped the South Koreans because they wanted SK to withdraw... after they said they were withdrawing. This doesn't scream 'organization'.
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I suspect that this is more what teh general Afgani population wants and has nothing to do with what the Taliban wants.
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One would hope.
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This is only speculation on my part as I have never discussed this with any Taliban but I [believe] the Taliban want to be in complete control of Afganistan on all levels - social, political, and religious. They want to do things there way whether or not it offers any type of freedom to the Afgan people and they don't want anyone from the rest of the world peeking in let alone telling them what to do.
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I stopped talking the the Taliban when they started growing opium instead of bud.
Monsters....
Yes, the Taliban wants to rule again. It won't happen as long as the West demonizes them as terrorists, though.