ANALYSIS: Will the Taliban ever pass the 'Starbucks test'?
It suits the US as it seeks to regain credibility after such a humiliating loss and retreat from Afghanistan to cast the Taliban as the lesser of two evils.
Sirajuddin Haqqani, the leader of the Haqqani group, is also the deputy leader of the Afghan Taliban. This rivalry may indeed be a family dispute. Both groups share the same ideology and seek to recreate a strict Islamic caliphate.The idea of the good Taliban/bad Taliban may well be a distinction without a difference.
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