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The Missing Argument for Peace in Afghanistan: Decoupling the Taliban and Al Qaeda

I’d written earlier with some thoughts on how to cut apart the Taliban in Afghanistan from their Al Qaeda counterparts. Broadly, I’d argued that one needed to separate out the incentives and motivations (en bloc) of the Taliban from their foreign, multi-national, globalist counterparts.  Separated out– as hanafis (nationalist jihadis)  and salafis (globalist jihadis)– NATO […]

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