Taliban zijn erg blij met Obama

Meanwhile the Taliban are cheering. “This clearly is a defeat for the U.S. in Afghanistan, and the start of the return of the Taliban, [its supreme leader] Mullah Omar, and an Islamic sharia state,” a senior member of the Taliban’s military council told The Daily Beast by cell phone from an undisclosed location, declining to be named for security reasons. “We can’t believe that in the short time of ten years the Taliban are forcing the superpower of the century to pull out its troops.” Although that was clearly a wild overstatement, Obama’s announcement has certainly given the hard-pressed Taliban a psychological morale boost.