From a political stand point perhaps but not from a military standpoint the situation is very complex there are dozens of different tribal groups that dislike each other greatly not every Afghan likes the Taliban some hate both the Taliban and the US/NATO some are drug traffickers and have 3 enemies,NATO,Taliban and Iranian border guards.The Taliban IEDs in many regions wind up killing innocent Afghans and that makes them very unpopular in many places.
Karzai is nothing more than the mayor of Kabul his has no real power just because his regime says something does not mean that the populace agrees with it.
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