Rural Pashtuns that live in the heartland of Helmand province (Sangin, etc) already lived in a lifestyle, culture and religious ideology that is a 90% overlap w

Rural Pashtuns that live in the heartland of Helmand province (Sangin, etc) already lived in a lifestyle, culture and religious ideology that is a 90% overlap with the Taliban. Ask somebody with an education from Kabul or Mazar-e-Sharif or Herat and you'll get a very different answer. But yes, the justice system under the Karzai and then Ghani governments did become hopelessly corrupt and untrustworthy.