A young girl on a rooftop in Herat, Afghanistan. (U.N. Photo/Eric Kanalstein, https://flic.kr/p/dZD7P5; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/)
Over the past year and a half of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, the impasse in engagement between the Taliban and the international community has only worsened. Understandably, the brutal nature of the Taliban’s tactics, including the use of young suicide bombers, makes engagement with the group morally questionable and practically futile. However, considering the implications of the the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the total victory the Taliban achieved in their 20-year war, the international community’s hesitancy to militarily intervene in or even engage with
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