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1. You cannot negotiate with people like the Taliban. They are not going to moderate their conduct. They operate under a zealous belief that they are anointed by God to commit mass murder and that will never moderate. You need to put them to ground and hunt them down.
2. First, any ideology that uses murder to advance it's religious agenda should not be treated as a religion under US or International law. It should be treated as a criminal organization. Would we have let Hitler alone if he called his twisted ideology his religion?
3. He was a mass murderer and had to be hunted like a mad dog. His principal followers chose to be associated with the murder and could be hanged in Nuremberg. We need to treat all so-called jihadists as simply members of a criminal organization. Don't soil the real
4. religion by granting them its voice. Second, to stop the Taliban you must change the way rural Afghanistan operates. Use money to reward areas that run Taliban out. Don't pay the ones who don't. Make the Taliban in a village the end of any money going to the village until
5. they run them out. Fill the sky above Afghanistan with killer drones. Be careful to not shoot civilians but make any gathering of Taliban near certain to draw a shot. Let people know to run. Put a reward on the head of the leaders.
6. Arm the women. Begin to covert the 7th century thinking that enslaves women to the modern world. Do not tolerate intolerance. Women who want to cover, should be allow to. Women who don't want to cover should be allowed to not cover. People who try to force compliance either
7. way should be punished. Afghans can't be conquered. But they can be educated. The key is to educate all Afghans including women and to make groups like the Taliban have to leave the population centers where our drones can hunt them day and night. The rewards should be
8. sufficient to make any Taliban leader unable to operate in public. You can never make peace with a zealot. You have to destroy them. And let their followers know that is their fate. Make a meeting of four or more almost certain to draw a SDB.
9. The Taliban have to allow all jihadists safe haven. That is part of the jihadist ideology. That led to Taliban's involvement in 9/11. We have been in Europe to keep it from spreading war to the US for over 70 years. We are just in the second inning in Afghanistan.
