As Victoria-based professor Gordon Smith notes, the “destruction of the Taliban movement – were it even possible – at this point basically translates into the destruction of Pakistani influence in Afghanistan”[24] – and such influence is not given up easily.
Le professeur Gordon Smith, de Victoria, a écrit que la destruction du mouvement taliban est conditionnelle à la destruction de l’influence pakistanaise en Afghanistan[24], ce à quoi on ne pourrait parvenir que difficilement.