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The terror of their ways: Kabul and global jihadism

The Intelligence from The Economist

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What Happened to the Taliban?

There are real questions about the primitor security that the taliban was supposed to be providing. The worst interpretation is that elements of the talaban even let these i s people through. And you have this very strange irony that the united states, who was just fighting the talban, are now relying on the taliban to provide perimitor security around the airport. There are tens of thousands of afghans who help the west and for them, the future looks exceedingly bleak.

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