Seeking Global Recognition, Taliban Take a New Approach: Making Nice

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Taliban may occupy Afghanistan’s border crossings and government offices, but what they control falls far short of a fully functioning country.

Services like water, electricity and trash pickup are faltering as state employees hide out at home. Ministries overseeing everything from diplomacy to public health have become little more than idle office buildings. The central bank sits effectively empty, with Washington having frozen Afghan government reserves held in U.S. bank accounts.

And the group faces a parallel threat: that Afghans, foreign governments and even interested security or intelligence services might not fully accept their rule, undermining their ability to consolidate power.

But to the Taliban, these problems all share at least one possible solution: making nice.

“Animosities have come to an end and we would like to live peacefully, without internal or external enemies,” Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s chief spokesman, told a gathering of reporters on Tuesday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/seeking-global-recognition-taliban-take-a-new-approach-making-nice/ar-AANu4P2

I'll believe it when I see it.

[David__77]

1. They have much to gain/lose.

Taking a radical course will incur a high price.

[andym]

2. It's much easier to act less extreme since their founder Mullah Omar has been dead for years

So at least it's possible that there will be some attempt at moderation. Given their history, moderation is suspect-- but perhaps not impossible.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. yep, odds are this is a facade for the international community...

while they go about their oppression in country.

[Pantagruel]

4. Governing is difficult

and tiny brained folk like the Taliban and GOP suck at it.

[lagomorph777]

5. Going to be pretty hard to convince anybody they aren't 100% evil.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. Seems they convinced IQ45 and his merry band of idiots pretty easily back in 2020 in Doha

Oh wait, Trump is also evil.

And stupid.

I'm guessing you meant decent, reasonable people when you said 'anyone'?

[lagomorph777]

7. Yeah - I should have said "any humans."

Trump & co are not in that category.

[iemanja]

8. The leadership from Doha doesn't have control

Over all the Taliban fighters, and some want and are executing revenge. They already violated their promise to not punish former government forces if they resigned.

I just heard on NPR that there is an active debate on social media about how they should treat the government forces.