The Taliban are and will always be part of Afghanistan. Bailey Guns said it best when talking about Iraq there are Taliban now in the government. This war will not be won by traditional means these pashtun people don't give three shits about our "democracy" they just want to farm their damn fields without getting blown to bits. And as long as we are over there fighting those "terrorists" we once called freedom fighters back in the 80s they wont be able to so they will resort to fighting us in the mean time. Its just one big fucked cycle and Dearborn, MI is a prime example that the fighting them over there idea doesn't work.