In recent months, the Taliban’s efforts to crush the Islamic State in Afghanistan have grown increasingly brutal. Suspected members of the Islamic State have been hung in public or beheaded. These tactics are ruthless and — unfortunately for the Taliban — they’re not working.

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[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Probably everyone against the current government will end up joining ISIS, no matter their personal politics, because they are the most effective opposition just as happened in Syria.

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[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Charlie Wilson handed us Afghanistan up on a silver platter in the 1980's and we blew it.