Are the Taliban and Al-Queda one and the same? It seems to me that Taliban would have some home-town chauvenism going on, and we know how Al-Q likes to come into town and beat up on the locals.

If I were going to try an Afghanistan Awakening project, recruiting Taliban to save their country and shoot at the mean old (Arab) intruder Al-Queda’s might be a direction to go in. After all, we’re forgiving Iraqi murderers of American soldiers in Iraq so it’s not like the idea is without precedent.

Arab Al-Queda seems to have a different theology than pretty much all other Muslims. I wonder how it matches up Allah-to-Allah with Taliban’s version of fanaticism.