They Didn't Get the Memo

I always enjoyed how anti-war people insisted that the presence of so few al Qaeda inside Afghanistan means that destroying the Afghan Taliban was irrelevant. This requires you to ignore the role the Taliban had in hosting al Qaeda before we overthrew the Taliban regime ten years ago, of course. And it fails to consider what the Taliban might do if they again control Afghanistan. The fact is, defeating the Taliban version of the jihadi nutjobs is necessary to defeat the al Qaeda version.

Funny enough, the Afghan Taliban aren't interested in playing along with the anti-war talking point:

"Even if the news of Osama bin Laden's martyrdom is true, it will not change our jihad policy ... if it is true that he is dead, it will give us more motivation to continue our jihad," one fighter said in Pashto on the video.

The fighters spoke on condition that their names and location were not disclosed. Reuters obtained the footage from a source in southern Afghanistan.

Whatever is said about the Taliban "distancing" themselves from al Qaeda, deep down they loved him and love his jihad and love killing in the name of the jihad.