re: #357 HappyWarrior

Not to mention a nasty tendency for those who might be willing to negotiate with or for the Taliban being assassinated for holding those views by more militant groups of Taliban and/or AQ affiliated groups. Further complicating matters is that Afghanistan still holds to a largely warlord based govt - Kabul doesn’t really hold sway over large parts of the country and there’s the incessant influence coming in via Pakistan’s frontier provinces.