A little tongue in cheek, but the idea is that the goal of the taliban is create an islamist republic and the west's constraining them is their continued justification. The authors says that the best way to nullify the taliban is to give them exactly what they want-a section of caves in the middle of no where (for lack of a better description-but seriously, that IS how most people would view the area) and let them screw up at governing and then the taliban will have lost legitimacy. Interesting, but it seems like the taliban did that from the 90's till 2001 and it didn't lead to the taliban's downfall.
Hugh Vondracek
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