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Reading stuff like this could make you stupid.  The US involvement in Afghanistan started in 1973 when Kissinger and Nixon overthrew the King's Gov't there.  I know this because I was personal friends with the King's Deputy Prime Minister.  Then the Daoud Regime, which overthrew the King, was itself overthrown in a CIA Coup in 1978, when Jimmy Carter and Zibignew Brezinski made those moves 'to set a trap'(as Brezinski called it) for the Russians.  So, the US has been there for almost 40 years, not 10(or whatever the fiction is).

The Taliban are the Militia and Police of the Traditional Gov't of Afghanistan.  The are Islamic people, not Islamic Fundamentalists(whatever that is).  They don't make money off of the Heroin trade, which was controlled, obviously, by Walid Karzai(recently deceased).  Once again they are Muslims, and Muslims don't like poppy.  The CIA and it's allies control that trade.

Tell me how the al-Qaeda is Wha-ha-bi when they oppose the King of Saudi Arabia and seek to overthrow him?  I am sure they don't share the same philosophy, and I know for a fact that the King of Saudi Arabia is a Wha-ha-bi.  But, then, does al-Qaeda actually exist?  Or is it just a fiction to justify what is happening.

Fact is, the Taliban was never allied with al-Qaeda, unless you count the war against the Russians, but, that was when the US was funding and arming al-Qaeda.  Actually, the Taliban were in negotiations with the Saudis to hand over bin Ladin in 2001 before 9/11.  Had been for 6 months, before Bush attacked them.  Osama bin Ladin, is only wanted by the US for the Embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, there is no evidence of his involvement in 9/11.  Just read the FBI website if you don't believe me. 

Pakistan has always been a possession of the US.  There is an old Muslim joke that goes like this:  Pakistan is run by the three A's.  Allah, the Army, and America.

Only, I don't think the Americans think it runs in that order.  But, they will find out, most likely, that that is the order it really does run in, despite the oppressor Americans and there goulish friends the British, French and the other NATO countries.

If you count the 6 and 1/2 million Afghans that have been killed or injured as a result of the US CIA sponsored coup in 1978, then there is no way the Taliban could even begin to catch up on killing and injuring the civilian population like the US has.  To point at them just misses the obvious, they are fighting against invaders on their own soil.