The gist I take from it is that the Taliban are winning... in Pakistan. Everyone who thinks they have an opinion on the issue of Afghanistan / Pakistan should be required to watch this before commenting.
Anyone who looks ahead to the next election, the next couple years, the next ten years, has completely missed the point. There are far more children in Taliban training camps than there are on the front line, which means their numbers will grow exponentially. Even the reporter, miss Sharmeen Obaid-Chinnoy, had the wool pulled over her eyes: those young men who said they were ready to join the Taliban and fight when they received training and arms, are likely already experienced killers. They probably had a good laugh when she left. My prediction is a 10+ years of guerllia warfare with the Pakistani government supported by U.S. funds and arms. Eventually the government will capitulate and be forced to broker a power sharing agreement in which they accept Sharia law and the Taliban becomes a legitimate political party, much like Hezbollah in Lebanon. At some point India will be dragged into this war too.
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