Taliban Quotes

On the diplomacy, conflict, and history surrounding the Taliban.

These Taliban quotes offer sober, first-hand reflections on decades of conflict and diplomacy in Afghanistan, including one official's account of having dealt directly with both the Taliban and al Qaeda. Another notes that rockets fired by the group are generally unguided, a point of military history.


A further quote frames talking to the Taliban as an internal Afghan process their own leadership must manage, tied to national identity, while a sharper comparison likens the group to the Salem witch trials, an emotional historical parallel about religious extremism.