The Taliban’s Afghanistan Guagmire
11th May 2022
But truth be told, the Taliban has nothing to brag about. The group learned fairly early that overthrowing a corrupt government that couldn’t extend its writ past a few major cities is not the same as governing a country of about 40 million people, the vast majority of whom are spending every minute of every day doing what they can to put food on the table. By any objective measure, the Taliban’s administration of Afghanistan has been as bad as the Afghan governments that came before it (and at least those governments had access to billions of dollars in foreign assistance every year).
Be careful what you wish for.