In many years from now historians will look back on the war on terror in Afghanistan (2001 - ) as they look back on the Vietnam War now. It will be another war that was impossible to win. Al Qaeda have turned into shadows. Afghanistan will never attain the level of violence Vietnam did at its worst. The best the Taliban can hope for is to drag out the war long enough to brain wash the people into thinking that if they support the insurgency there will ultimately be a peace with the Taliban and their brand of Sharia law as rulers. Afghanistan will just rumble. A persistent sore on the ass of the 'free' West. Every day or every few days someone will die. Someday soon 1 death will be old news unless more than 2 or 3 die at the same time. What is my point? Newsweek has just published a series of interviews with the Taliban. They fight for what they think is right. We fight for what we think is right. And the reason for why they and we fight is lost in a mush of half truths and double speak. In the end people die and politicians speak and when all is said and done the future will know that it was a pointless war with no winners and hundreds of 1,000s of losers and some very rich companies.
The Taliban in Their Own Words
by Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau
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