Now the Taliban will pay a price.
We dont see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and its a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term.
The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.
From sitting down with West Timorese, to spending endless hours with the Afghan Taliban; to have sat with Al Qaeda after 911 I've always found myself crossing into the unknown - to the darker recesses.
I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I'm here to speak up for the right of every child.
I don't think the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban will yield a positive result
Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision weaponry is good in itself, but its ability to discriminate is improving and will continue to improve. Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.
And as a result of the United States military, Taliban no longer is in existence.
[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.
One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.
I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.
Know what the Taliban leaders like to do for fun? Just sit around and get bombed.
As a critic, I try to stay neutral about movies before I see them, but I really wanted "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" to be great. It's based on a barbed memoir by Kim Barker called "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days In Afghanistan And Pakistan. " And its stars Tina Fey, out of her comfort zone, just as Barker was a fish out of water when, in 2004, she began covering the Afghanistan occupation for the Chicago Tribune.
By releasing these five top Taliban commanders, the U. S. is demonstrating that it is throwing in the towel in the long struggle against the Taliban and its al-Qaeda allies in Afghanistan.
When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.
We are not going to succeed because Taliban are masters of guerrilla warfare
Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.
As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in response to the 911 attacks, and we may also use force consistent with our inherent right of national self-defense.
If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you're worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America's concern, America's operational presence there would be much different.
Allow the Taliban to open offices in Pakistan