Belial,

The War on Terror is a world war, fought by in England by the English, in Indonesia by the Indonesians, in France by the French, in the Philippines by Filipinos, in the United States by Americans, etc. On occasion, terrorists are interdicted outside the boarders of the target nations. Commonly, these are covert operations, but on occasion large scale offenses are employed.

No one should confuse the downfall of the Taliban as anything other than a particular theater of operation in a global conflict. The government of Afghanistan gave succor and sanctuary to a particular terrorist organization, Al-Qaeda, and was overthrown by those who preferred a different government. The reason that they were overthrown was that THERE WAS NO PEACFUL MEANS to select an alternative. The fact that the Taliban did not stand a snowball’s chance in Hell against the might that their misbegotten foolishness brought down upon them in no way excuses their reprehensible policies which, among other savageries, included the destruction of the Binyamin Buddahs as well as a substantial faction of Afghanistan’s cultural heritage.

The War on Terror will take a long time, and success is not guarantied.

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Eudaimonia