A Couple Of Questions About The Taliban & Pakistan.......

[global1]

How big an army does the Taliban have? Aren't they kind of a rogue band of bandits or are they more organized than what we've been led to believe? Where do they get their arms from?

Now on Pakistan:

Doesn't Pakistan have an army? How big? They are able to have nukes - but are unable to defend them? How does a country that is able to develop nuclear weapons not have the ability to defend themselves against a rogue group like the Taliban?

What am I missing here?

[tekisui]

1. The Taliban and other extremist groups in Pakistan are protected

and funded by the Pakistani military and the ISI. The ISI and the military have been compromised to the point that they are intertwined and dependent on the extremists.

IMO, Pakistan has already fallen. The civilian government is only there as a front to continue funneling US money to the Taliban.

[xchrom]

2. agreed -- the pakistani goverment has failed -- it's a matter of degrees.

no it wasn't/isn't the collapse that makes people gasp -- but it's pretty much chaos there.