Is the taliban not a militia?
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No, the Taliban is an assortment of religious fanatics who want to restore an Islamic culture of suppression and illiteracy that has no validity in any modern world. It is financed wherever it exists by money from Saudi Arabia and other reactionaries and could not exist without them and could not exist in any modern state.
The Taliban cannot hold territory or run a government that favors the people by providing simple things like electricity, potable water, decent schools that teach anything useful to a modern civilization. Madrassas concentrate only on the memorization of the Koran in Arabic, a foreign language in every nation where the Taliban exists and perhaps a little math. Would schools that teach the memorization of the New Testament in Aramaic be of any use to anyone in this country?
The fact that the Taliban has not been able to hold power in any country where it has attempted to do so sort of proves that militias are a thing of the past from any useful point of view.
