acts of violence from a illegitimate government is terrorism folks. I don't care about America or Isis. A bad guy fighting a bad guy does not male one bad guy good.
The Taliban is trying to pivot towards legitimacy and governance while not dropping their worst fundamentalist tendencies, and their enemies are worse than them.
The US military never should have set foot there. Things are far worse for it, which was hard to believe possible, and it's hard to see how anything gets better.
Right, my comment was more about, once a terrorist always a terrorist, like once your murder someone, your forever a murderer instead of stopping being a murderer cause you haven’t killed in a decade,
well the taliban weren't terrorists until they stopped fighting the soviets. one of the 80's Bond films is even dedicated to "the brave freedom fighters of Afghanistan". contrary to doing a single murder, doing many for political gain turns your status from objective to subjective.
Every terrorist believes their cause is just and they're freedom fighters.
Every victor gets to write the history books... Hence why the objectively-terrorist actions of bombing Dresden, Berlin, 90+ Japanese cities + the nukes, etc. during WWII, wasn't defined as terrorism but doing what needed to be done for the greater good.