In The Spectator this week, Ahmed Rashid writes...
The last time the Taliban took over, there were three phases. The first was public relations: promising to end corruption, deliver food, services and all the rest of it. Then came the second phase: public mismanagement, economic disaster, food shortages and a drug crisis. The Taliban was just not ready to govern. Then the final phase: all-out conflict with the public — Sharia punishment, beheadings, hand-chopping, and the subjection of women.
Hand and head-choppings aside, this does not sound so markedly different from one of Guatemala's time-limited, quadrennial mis-governments.
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