The historical analogies between the Pashtuns and the Apaches and Sioux are interesting to a history buff like me.

Compare and contrast 9/11 to the Minnesota Massacre.

Is Mullah Omar anything like Red Cloud? Might a Crow have similar opinions about Lakota domination as Tajiks had about Pashtun Taliban domination?

And how much like The Medicine Line is the Durand Line?

Will some 21st-Century General Crook go across the line and talk Baitullah Mehsud in to coming in?

The Taliban is 90% Pashtun. Pashtun culture is under stress comparable to the small pox, the extinction of the buffalo, and disasterous wars. They can assimulate or they can stay on the Rez but the old ways are dying fast.