The Taliban Strategy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/16/taliban-prefer-dead-diplomats

As the above article illustrates the real target of the bombing was American diplomats. Since this is a guerrila war and not a rich nation fighting a rich nation it is much more like the war the American colonists fought against the British in 1776. Because of this the Taliban can only win when they choose the time and the place to fight and it is a surprise, an ambush. This is the only way they can win battles. There is no other way for them. They will simply wear the Western World down through trying to bankrupt Western nations. This battle by the Taliban as it is being fought could feasibly go on for hundreds of years or when the Western World or India or China gets so upset that they either nuke the area so no one lives there or spray agent orange again so no plants can live there as in the DMZ of Viet Nam where there are still multiple headed and legged people being born 40 years later from spraying agent orange. It all depends who gets ultimately upset first. And the longer this goes on the more likely it is that no one will be able to ever live again in Afghanistan, Pakistan or in that area. There must be a way out found so all can live in peace. Otherwise, no one will ever live in that area ever again. Just do the logic. Just do the math. I suppose it could look like Viet Nam does now. That would be another alternative.

So this thing will go on as long as any country is willing to pay for it.(Or drug lord in the case of the Taliban).