Taliban have no self-doubt; they don't care if Afghanistan goes down

There is no meaningful evidence that the Taliban are feeling any existential crisis, much less that they care about making money or running an economy

Joe Biden doesn’t know what to make of the Taliban. Asked in an ABC News interview last week if he thought the Afghan insurgents had changed, the U.S. president gave a tortured answer that amounted to, “Yes, no and maybe.”

It is worth examining his exchange with George Stephanopoulos in some detail for a full appreciation of Biden’s self-delusion:

Q: What happens now in Afghanistan? Do you believe the Taliban have changed?

A: No. I think… let me put it this way: I think they're going through sort of an existential crisis about do they want to be recognized by the