Taliban is again on the rise
This article shows a good example of the social control that terrorists exercise over the areas around them. "The assault on one of the city's best-protected landmarks was the latest — and most dramatic — sign that the Taliban may be gaining strength more than six years after U.S.-led forces invaded to drive the Islamist militant movement from power." With the attack of these high profile targets in the local community the locals are scared of what could happen to them so even though we may be beating them back they have the social control still to the point where even beggars are distrusted "security fears have become so intense that he even shoos away beggars out of fear they could be wearing suicide vests". This leads to an open question after six years of battling the Taliban we apparently have not completely succeeded so What does it take to completely eliminate or beat a terrorist organization ?
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In answer to your question posed at the end...I really do not know what it takes to defeat a terrorist organization. Terrorism in general, however, is even more difficult because it has been around for a very long time. It is a method (I don't remember the article...it might be Juergensmeyer) and so will continue regardless of how many terrorist organizations we do eliminate. There is still hope--terrorist organizations do die off...we just have to be ready to deal with the next generation.
The Taliban have claimed responsibility for a number of suicide attacks which more recently have turned to civilian targets as in a hotel boming in Kabul. Anyway, an interesting story.
I believe we declared victory too early in Afghanistan. Once the Taliban was out of power and on the run, we shifted our attention to Saddam and Iraq. This spread us too thin and has allowed the Taliban's comeback.
However, I can picture the Taliban's attempts to gain back their power to backfire. Suicide bombings bring a lot of attention to the area which does not seem like a sound strategy for them. This will only alert the U.S. military and citizens to the problems there, and could result in more forces being deployed there.
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