This Will Work Out Swell for the Taliban

As we gird for the always expected but never robust Taliban "spring offensive" in Afghanistan, consider what the enemy has to work with this year:

In Afghanistan, the Taliban are recruiting for their annual "Spring Offensive." Because of the damage done to their drug gang allies last year, there's less money for payroll. So more and more recruits are hired under "loot rules". That means these guys get little or no pay, but are sent into parts of the country where the Taliban are basically operating like bandits. There's a lot of looting going on, and these recruits live off the loot.

Looting is their pay system. That's going to make friends and influence people. For our side, anyway.