Taliban Won the war but Could they win the Peace?
How the Taliban won the war – but not the peace By Wahab Raofi The Taliban will fare no better ruling Afghanistan than the American-backed Ghani government did. As so many rulers before have found, the area is ungovernable. Like a bloody conqueror from the past, the Taliban have sent a clear warning to the people of Afghanistan – anyone who resists them and their fundamentalist creed will live in fear. Pouring into Afghanistan from their hidden sanctuaries, their goal is to create an Islamic state, much as ISIS hoped to do in Iraq. How did the Taliban defeat the American-trained Afghan Army – seemingly without firing a shot? My answer, as a former resident of Afghanistan with many relatives and friends there, is not military, but political. The will of the Afghan Army to fight had become nonexistent. Just as the American public were tired of what Donald Trump called the American “endless war,” Afghans too were tired of this protracted and pernicious conflict. Almost every Afghan family...