[postingawayonhn]

I provided the link to hear it from the horses mouth. I'm not saying he's some wonderful person, but HTS's current agenda and recent actions are generally positive.

[cm2187]

You mean what he tells CNN while he is trying to get US support?

Reminds me of what we were told of the talibans when Biden was trying to hand them over the country. "They are not the same talibans", "they want to be a good world citizen", etc. Well that didn't age well.

[postingawayonhn]

I don't think you would be able to find anything as remotely moderate from the Taliban.

[dralley]

They're nationalist rather than international (like ISIS), which is frankly the aspect that Western governments would care most about.

[aguaviva]

When Biden was trying to hand them over the country.

Effectively it was Trump who made that decision, via the Doha agreement.

Biden's role was merely to fumble the actual delivery as spectacularly as possible.