The fundamental issue is that not a single Western politician appears ever to have read the Afghan “constitution”. NATO troops are dying in some quantity, and Western treasuries being drained, to install and maintain a klepto-narco syndicate based on a shari’ah theocracy. The West has no business propping up a shari’ah-governed non/failed state.

And the nanosecond that NATO pulls out of A’stan, the Taliban (or its salafist or mahdaviat successor organization) will move immediately into the void.