we not dealing with the old Taliban, we dealing with the younger smarter generation. Commanders that had training in Pakistan, Iran, Syria etc. How you think the US death rate rose so high? These nikkas using flanking maneuvers, artillery from local mortar teams, their snipers are hitting ISA troops from damn near half a mile and its not foreign fighters, home grown training and some of them got train from the ANA.
Too keep it real we never went hard on AQ, it was mainly the old taliban. After a quick hitaus and when we left to fight in Iraq, they regrouped, got training etc. Got no choice but to talk with them