The Taliban, the teachers, is a movement that has its origins more than a century ago in Pakistan. While it is austere, even radical and Islamist, it is not inherently jihadi. As long as Pashtuns live on either side of the international border there will be no border! Pashtuns are a nation of warring tribes who only stop warring with one another when they agree to war against others, the central governments so called of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia. Until we extinguish the jihadi financing that comes directly from the Gulf and Saudi, allegedly our allies, there will remain a threat to us and to all governments. I do not see evidence that love of Arabs is high on Pashtun lists; money is. We are focusing on the wrong parties. Try the corrupted American Congress and government bought for decades by the Saudis.