The west lost the war to the Taliban but still tries to dictate the terms of peace or financial aid to the victors and takes amazing comfort in the soothing, soft-talk of Tali-man spokespersons who try to appear as religious abbots!
The West can't wait for the Taliman to set-up a "functioning government ". This is like The allies being eager to see the invading Nazis set up shop in Paris or Poland or The Chinese communists set up rule in Peking after their armies swept across China in 1949.
So now we have it. Just like the Nazis there are no surprises and no joys in the new government of the victors.
Just a congress of neanderthal terrorists who at the first significant provocation would be fine targets for predator drones.
Unfortunately they have a huge cache of western citizen-prisoners whom they plan to hold as hostages until the west gives them all the treasure and all the protection they demand!
The other western fantasy which needs to be discarded is the efficacy of mass peaceful protest! How did it go in Syria? How has it worked in Myanmar?, How about Hong Kong?
As Mao famously wrote a revolution isn't fun, romantic, easy or gentle. It is an act of violence usually over decades in which the army with the most brutal weaponry wins over the weaker army.
Well today's gun factories in America and other nations have supplied the most brutal and most efficient killing equipment to the whole world but mostly to those with great wealth and power to insure that uprisings against them fail and they remain in power for dynasties. The taliman for now, is one of them.
So ladies, be either housewives again or martyrs but choose quickly!
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