The Taliban is a Barbarian War Band

"Time is always on the side of the barbarians"

There is an interesting symmetry between Joe Biden and the Taliban: neither are fit to rule their respective countries, but for totally opposite reasons. At one extreme, Biden is a sick, weak old man with no political foresight who can’t remember the previous sentence he just tried, awkwardly, to articulate; whereas the Taliban are not fit to rule becau…