To all who think there's something wrong with supporting the Taliban (I don't myself, but that's immaterial), the Taliban are no worse than the Afghans they are fighting. They are all just as repressive as the Taliban, they are all just as violent as the Taliban, they are all just as extreme in the form of Islam they practice as the Taliban. The main difference is that the Taliban brought order to the country while the warlords who are fighting them brought only chaos. That's it. There is no other difference.

The UK and US are supporting people who are just as bad as the Taliban, and only for the reason that they can get those people to do their bidding. Not because those people will bring peace and freedom, or anything like it, to the people (in particular, the women), of Afghanistan.

Those who support what the UK and US governments are doing in Afghanistan are supporting people who are every bit as bad as the Taliban.