Ron Aledo, a US Army veteran and former intelligence adviser to the Afghan National Police analysts in Kabul during various missions, describes the ethnicity to which the movement that seized power from Afghanistan after the troops left belongs. Americans and how it differs from other ethnicities in the region.
In addition, he says that the members of the Taliban are illiterate and only know the Koran, because, according to him, they are religious fanatics.
Hear why Aledo calls them "semi-savages" here.