Taliban

[4thInter]

Does the talban still pose a threat in Afghanistan?:confused:

[The Intransigent Faction]

Short answer: Yes, NATO has made sure of that.

There are plenty of signs, not the least of which is the recent prisoner swap. After all, if they could have just swooped in and freed the Taliban's captives, would they have bothered negotiating?

[Leftsolidarity]

Moved to /politics

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

A threat to whom? Women? Shiites, Sufis, "apostates" and Atheists? Sunni men who don't conform to the Taliban's variant of Shariah? The Afghan government? Afghan soldiers, civil servants and bureaucrats? US interests? Western soldiers and civilians?

[consuming negativity]

The Taliban have lost a lot more nominally than they have in reality. They wield an immense amount of de facto power.

[Slavic]

A threat to whom? Women? Shiites, Sufis, "apostates" and Atheists? Sunni men who don't conform to the Taliban's variant of Shariah? The Afghan government? Afghan soldiers, civil servants and bureaucrats? US interests? Western soldiers and civilians?

You answered your own question