With the US out of Afghanistan, there is a good chance the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), an anti-Jihadi organization of Eurasian States will either crush the Taliban or tolerate them for as long as they only attack America. The shape of alliances in the 21st century is becoming clear. I wonder though, how much of this is even on the radar in Denver, caught up as it is on carbon trading, global warming, change and hope. Maybe the oceans will start to fall. Maybe the earth will start to heal. But nobody said the West had to be around to witness it.