But if terrrrism is being promoted - which it is - that implies that US foreign policy is stupid and insane. Or that it actively wants to promote terrorism. Or that it needs a war for domestic reasons.
Or possibly all of the above.
What would be the worst that would happen if the Taleban were allowed to have the country back?
This might seem like a bad thing for the inhabitants, but continual war hardly seems like a positive alternative.
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*Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
It looks like Iran (on the Western border) would be a very valuable ally if one wanted to cut the Taliban vanguard in the north from their bases in the South and Southeast (including Pakistan's frontier province). The peak-to-trough part of the business cycle is an outlier. Carnot would have died laughing.
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