Some military analysts surveying the armed conflict primarily between the Taliban and the Kabul government have admitted a stalemate. But to my mind, there is no other way to evaluate the years of war between the two sides as being nothing other than a continuance of war.
Part of the reason is that not all sides in the conflict are represented by the two warring parties. Tribal groups or aggregates remain independent of these two factions. Moreover, much agrarian land is used to grow the poppy seeds and plants used in the manufacture of opiates. And, how about the Chinese mining of the mineral rights in the Afghanistan West? Land so valuable to the drug trade can be openly traded by one or another claiming itself the legitimate government of the country.
It is a true miracle that there's not greater loss of life in this country torn apart and dismembered into the several, local governing units.
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