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We got the big pockets to buy loyalty of warlords, we just need a better Pasthun front man. The hard part is to find a Pasthun with "street cred" and who we can place there yet without him being tainted by having been part of the Taliban. Kabul based mullahs were generally not as extreme as the Kandahar based ones yet they are all hard to sell to the NA and their base and of course USA public. The Northern Alliance didn't want an ex Taliban no matter how close to the center (out how far from the ultra far right) they were. The whole thing about Pakistan wanting Taliban "moderates" and the NA asking if they were "moderate" why were they part of the Taliban shows that.

Karzai is more or less a joke which no one there wants, kind of the man who would be king. He gave money to the Taliban, ended up in the Massoud run jail, ran to Pakistan, got booted out of Pakistan, and showed up the "fight" the Taliban only after 9-11. He doesn't even have the respect of the NA warlords much less "street cred" the Pasthuns or the nieghboring nations. He doesn't even have a real base (read: militia to call on). The big boys like Khan, Fahim and Dostum can call up big time militias.

We can kill the Taliban off just with how things are going. Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Pakistan will no longer bankroll their operations which drops the weapons, bribes and amount of men they could try and keep the field. But a civil war with all the kids on the block and outside of the block could happen after we leave if we can't get every group to feel as if it is part of the government. Massoud had planned that when the Taliban were defeated he would share power wigth every ethnic group to end the civil war and leave no one out in the cold. We just have to rep the Pasthuns better