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I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.

The Taliban is resilient.

One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.

Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.

It is in their inherent moral components that recent Western strategies may be deficient. What percentage of the populations in countries engaged in the 14-year effort in Afghanistan could even name the three main Taliban groups with whom their soldiers have been engaged?

It's true that since 9/11, the application of conventional military rules of engagement has gotten a bit foggy. The Taliban were not an 'enemy state,' but the Canadian Forces conducted its operations in Afghanistan as though the rules of war applied anyway.

Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.