I wonder if there’s any truth to this report by Chris Fitzgerald in Asia Times about the hard time the Taliban is having in Afghanistan these days:
Afghanistan’s Taliban faces growing opposition to its three-year post-conflict rule, rising threats that are gnawing at the stability the one-time insurgent group has sought to impose on the nation.
The Islamist regime appeared to be riding high just recently in celebrating the third anniversary of its second time in power with a military parade showcasing fighter aircraft and weapons seized after the US-led coalition withdrew in chaos in August 2021.
But behind the celebration and military flexing, the Taliban is contending with potent challenges on multiple fronts.
The article goes on to outline the problems today’s Taliban is having with Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K), the Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF), and the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF). It would be comical if there weren’t human lives at stake.
All these resistance movements, especially the ISIS affiliate, are funded and run by the US. We are still running ISIS in Syria.
The US has a long sordid history of using terrorist organizations to attack its adversaries. We use NGO-driven color revolutions, too, like the ones underway in Georgia, Moldova, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, and Turkey.
By some accounts we are also funding the Taliban too, Bob. Now THAT would be comical if lives weren’t at stake.