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The more we hammer them the stronger they get. The Taliban will not cease to exist. The very forces that seek to destroy them are precisely what motivate them. Now there is talk of sending foreign troops into Pakistan to take the Taliban on in their homeland, in order to prop up the failures in Afghanistan. Pakistan have enough instability problems to deal with as it is. Eventually western powers will see that it will be politically expedient to forge a secret peace deal with the Taliban, giving them control of the border region. It will also be necessary to guarantee that they will be left alone in their mountain retreat in Pakistan. This will return Afghanistan to a state of perpetual unease where a peace exists only because each of the waring factions can't defeat the others. This will provide the West with the easy way out, and the 'Mayor of Kabul' will take his tiny empire and retire in the south of France, or wherever he can maintain his elegant dress sence.
