My guess is the british MP thinks that the Taliban can be turned against AQ just as the the saudi’s cousin tribes in western anbar were turned against AQ.
this is not an unreasonable proposition.
“My guess is the british MP thinks that the Taliban can be turned against AQ just as the the saudi’s cousin tribes in western anbar were turned against AQ.
this is not an unreasonable proposition.”
Exactly correct. Nobody else in this thread seems to consider that this is exactly what the US has done in Iraq.
News flash guys, we can’t kill everyone. We don’t have anywhere near enough troops in Afghanistan (about 50% bigger than Iraq) to subdue the country militarily. Afganistan has always been about tribes shifting alliegences. The number of actual hardcore Taliban is relatively small. The way we win is by stripping away factions that have currently allied with them.