Same old, same old?

me...
Meaning my old temptation to comment primarily before fully reading a source.
Who are the Taliban?

Although I have actually started to read, I must note in digesting it, my thoughts.
Preemptively? My thoughts were that the Taliban are the new al Queda. Well...
at this point they are at least "the insurgents" but my new take is that they are the new coalition of the willing.

Willing to do anything to get foreigners out. Just showing that Bush is a uniter not a divider. The Taliban have gone from being willing to give up bin Laden to an international court or third party to being the loyal opposition or radical unifiers where the unifying force is our forces. I have long harbored if not sunk certain phrases that would imply that Bush would be true to some sort of his words.

SO THERE... now I will get back to about the fifth paragraph, reading the link above, subtitled: The Afghan War Deciphered. I hope it is the legacy flip-flopped.

[12-5-08: Having finished the full article, there is only hope that some change in course will make the legacy more than just more of the same. But more than just change in course are the actual participants in the navigation.]