It is easier, and more glorious, to be a guerrilla than a ruler.
Three months after taking power in Kabul, the Taliban experience it cruelly, at the expense of the Afghans.
To run a country, to ensure the peace and security of its people, to administer an economy and to provide for the subsistence of 38 million mouths, this is not why the “students of religion” carried out their jihad.
They wanted to re-establish Sharia rule, triumph over their enemies, and enjoy the benefits of power.
No Afghan was naive enough to believe that they would use it magnanimously.
So here is where we are, so soon after the hasty flight of the Americans and their allies.
The war between the Taliban and their Salafi rivals Daesh rages on.
The Islamic State in Khorasan (IS-K) attracts all who oppose the new regime, including former Western-trained soldiers - in addition to the jihadist international once vacationing in the
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