Afghan Cycle: How it works

[Mr Khan]

KungKras said:
Taliban is being left in power? O_o

We're all thinking ahead. The only viable road to peace will be Taliban participation in a new regime, which they may attain majority control over since they largely represent the Pashto ethnic group, which holds a very narrow ethnic plurality in Afghanistan.

While the Taliban are a bad group of people, America does not necessarily find their existence intolerable, merely their tendency to give safe harbor to terrorists. If they were obliged to follow the current constitution, a restoration of some form of Taliban control would be an acceptable outcome.