You guys have it all wrong. When the news says something, the reality is obviously going to be the opposite. The Taliban are local heroes pushing security and local values. They are the MAGA of Afghanistan.
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They eschew alcohol, tobacco, porn, and drugs
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They hate liberals and Zionists
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They don't allow their women to act like whores
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They have zero [open] homosexuals or lesbians, and no trannies
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Taliban are enemies with ISIS. Usually when people are enemies they have polar opposite beliefs.
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Trump met with Taliban to make agreements
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US Military working with Taliban: The US Is Helping the Taliban Fight ISIS, CENTCOM's Top General Says - Mar 2010 - "Gen. McKenzie turned heads with testimony about 'very limited support' for an enemy who is also an enemy of an enemy."
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Unlike the Deep State and CIA, the Taliban hates drug hustling - "The Taliban enforced a ban on poppy farming via threats, forced eradication, and public punishment of transgressors. The result was a 99% reduction in the area of opium poppy farming in Taliban-controlled areas, roughly three quarters of the world's supply of heroin at the time."
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Taliban bans the Covid-19 vaccine
A better question may be "are they cooperating with Trump or not?". They may not be intentionally cooperating which also implies they are not good guys or bad. Its all about what is in their best interest which could have been calculated by Trump when he met with them. Their level of cooperation will be throttled by what they have to gain or lose.
Right now, I put the Taliban in the same category as Chris Wray. Do I trust him to do the right thing? No, but I sure hope he does something decisive in the future that allows us to consider him a white-hat. We may never know.