Originally Posted by
Gaidax
Sounds like what a privileged western boy would say.
No, Taliban IS legit THE worst thing there can be. It's practically North Korea, except that every little village idiot with a gun making the rules on the fly, because there isn't really any centralized leadership and instead it's a bunch of warlords in temporary alliance with unruly mobsters under their "command" pretending to be "legitimate businessmen". There is no worse than that.
West performance in Afghanistan was pretty bad, their plans were all shit and it resulted in this whole crap. The puppet leadership was corrupt and useless. But say whatever you will, there was a generation of people who at least got a small taste of what you get without thinking about it. It's just a shame it's only one generation and only in big population centers, they will be beaten down into submission quickly by your precious Taliban.