[gotoeleven]

That the Vietnamese don't follow a religion which they interpret as mandating the conversion or death of all non believers?

The Taliban have moral clarity and that's a huge advantage against the relativist post-modern muddle brained thinking that characterizes most of western leadership these days.

[shihab]

I think the entire point of the article was that Taliban doesn't really care about rigid ideology, it's their flexibility that has won them the war.

[XorNot]

They're in the middle of deciding Uighur's aren't really Muslims because that's awfully convenient when you want a deal with China.

[watwut]

Suprising amounts of conservative westerners seem to admire taliban.

[int_19h]

It can get pretty explicit on the fringes of alt-right.

http://web.archive.org/web/20180108005721/http://vandalvoid....