Rebels with a new cause: The challenges the Taliban face in governing Afghanistan
From www.cbc.ca
2021-08-31 08:00:00
Murray Brewster
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The Taliban finally have what they always wanted: Afghanistan all to themselves.
Two decades of butchery and warfare — almost three decades if you count their initial rise to power in the early 1990s — came to an ignominious end with the departure of the last U.S. troops and transport planes from Kabul on Monday.
Since the hardline Islamist movement is known to frown on dancing — when not outright banning it — you can probably expect little in the way of public celebration, at least nothing that western nations would recognize, or consider a party.
Whatever victory celebration the Taliban might have in mind, it will surely be tempered by the reality that they have inherited a country they helped to utterly ruin and are now overlords to a fractious, recalcitrant people who do not bow easily, even when bloodied.
Much has been written about the policy failures, the incoherence and the hubris of western nations, led by the United States, since the democratically-elected…
