Saad Mohseni's Hopeful Vision for Afghanistan

[A-Team]

With a mixture of humor and wisdom, Mohseni also offers a take on what motivates those forces in Pakistan that continue to harbor, condone, or support the Afghan Taliban. “…they actually genuinely believe that the Taliban represents the majority of Afghanis. And I jokingly refer to them as the Chardonnay Taliban, because while they’re sipping their Chardonnays, in their houses in Lahore, they’re advocating a Taliban style government in our country….Its only time that’s going to actually prove that, for them to realize that Afghanistan has changed. You know they always say, the Taliban says that time is on their side because the Americans will leave. But the exact opposite will happen on January 1, 2015. Every day that the Taliban have not captured a major city, or a major province, or a major part of the country, the myth will be destroyed. So I think that we will have to have a serious conversation late 2015 and 2016, because it’s only then the Pakistans will realize that they will not be able to just completely see a collapse of the country a la 1993 or 1994.”



Saad Mohseni's Hopeful Vision for Afghanistan | Brookings Institution

 

[A-Team]

Charactors like Hameed Gul,Zaid Hamid, Colonel Imam do fit the description

 

[POPS]

so does that mean INA will be able to protect the new regime and Majority ordinarry afghan (readpashtuns) will support the so called puppet govt as suggeted by the peopel described in #2

and will afghanistan be able to stand on its own feet once the security umbrella of NATO is gone ?