Why have the Taliban been able to conquer Afghanistan so quickly, although they
were hopelessly outgunned for almost 20 years as the article in the Atlantic
describes ("Brother... it's too cold to jihad") ? It seems as if Afghanistan
exists only in two stable modes: tribalism where the country is divided among
clans and tribes, and radical Islamism in form of Taliban rulership. Both are
among the oldest forms of political order forms according to Francis Fukuyama
(who wrote two books about the development of political order which I am
currently
reading)https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/what-i-learned-while-eavesdropping-on-the-taliban/619807/-J.- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .
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