Taliban terror

Recently there have been optimistic reports that the Taliban, facing a surge in attacks by Trump-authorised airstrikes, was beginning to move towards the idea of negotiationing for a peace settlement. This has to be totally false. The Taliban has been happy today to accept responsibility for killing 95 people and injuring about 160 others in an explosives-packed ambulance suicide attack in Kabul. The driver calmly drove through TWO checkpoints without being stopped BECAUSE it was an ambulance. Terrorists always, it seems, manage to keep one step ahead of the security authorities. But this latest Taliban outrage shows that however many airstrikes and special forces raids the US and its Afghan partners carry out this year, the Taliban wants nothing to do with peace. They just want the US out and all other foreigners out and then take over Kabul again. They are ruthless, murderous, totally amoral non-human beings who will never honour anything to do with peace. They despise peace, they are addicted to violence, killing and control. They are as bad as Isis. They will never negotiate while the Americans are still in Afghanistan, but the Americans can never leave Afghanistan while the Taliban are still killing and wounding and hating. This conflict is going to continue for ever. It is bleak bleak bleak. Fanatical people, whether Islamic or not, will never understand the word compromise. Isis has been driven from Mosul and Raqqa but has that changed their ideological hatred? Of course not. The same with the Taliban. The Taliban leaders and their friends, Osama bin Laden-led al-Qaeda, were defeated and driven out of Afghanistan in 2001 and have been engaged in revenge ever since.