How would you define the war between the current Afghanistan government and the Taliban?

Is it a Civil War? Does the fact that the Taliban is fighting in Afghanistan and Pakistan mean it is something else? Does the US presence in Afghanistan blur the definition of this war further?



If this is best interpreted as a Civil War, should that change the United States' approach or do the potential international consequences of a Taliban victory take precedence?|||Their president was reelected only because his opponent dropped out. They have no real government. This is a war we cannot win, and Obama is contempleting sending more troops. The initial attack removed the Taliban from power, but Taliban forces have since regained some strength. The war has been less successful in achieving the goal of restricting al-Qaeda's movement than anticipated. Since 2006, Afghanistan has seen threats to its stability from increased Taliban-led insurgent activity, record-high levels of illegal drug production and a fragile government with limited control outside of Kabul.|||It is a war for the Taliban but only a war in name only for the U S. We are not fighting a war when political correctness dominates our governments thinking. The way we are, so called, fighting, the current methods used l can assure you that we will be there for over 40 years that is unless we let the Taliban win. or we go broke fighting a no win war. Can you imagine that if political correctness was used in WW11 that we would still be fighting that war..You can not be a nice guy and win a war because history. proves that fact.|||No, they are just biding their time until the US gets out, after which time they will go back to what they were doing before the US got involved.





If the US keeps doing what it is doing there will never be an end to it, and a hundred years from now it will be just like it is today. This is a career war that is being waged for no reason other than to have something to do and to waste money.