No I said that the Taliban would never again rule Afghanistan, and nobody can read the future but it seems just as unlikely today as last year. They've been reduced to a gang of killers who put ball bearings through the heads of children and deal heroin, but the amount of control they exert has not increased over any part of Afghanistan and has only diminished. And the most ruthless killer among them Dadullah 1 got toasted. In fact, the famed "spring offensive" that they always claim to be preparing didnt even materialize last spring. Maybe they were taking the year off preparing for a super duper mega spring offensive this spring
