Foreign aid flowing to Taliban
It is the open secret no one wants to talk about, the unwelcome truth that most prefer to hide. In Afghanistan, one of the richest sources of Taliban funding is the foreign assistance coming into the country.
Virtually every major project includes a healthy cut for the insurgents. Call it protection money, call it extortion, or, as the Taliban themselves prefer to term it, “spoils of war,” the fact remains that international donors, primarily ...
Full Story »
What it implies is that the Talibn is a lot more powerful and entrenched then most Western governments and media sources are willing to admit. That makes me wonderwhat 'mission accomplished' here will look like. And Afghanistan has defeated more than one Western power in the past.