Call the Taliban What They Are — Terrorists

Although Obama chose to end the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan on an arbitrary timeline, the conflict is intensifying and Taliban terror tactics are even more aggravating. For better or for worse, choosing to end combat operations in Afghanistan is well within the commander-in-chief’s prerogative. But within the context of cuttlefish-like mischaracterizations of the Afghan Taliban, the Obama administration has signaled that it is politically more palatable to end a war against ‘armed insurgents’ prematurely than continue to fight against ‘terrorists’ until they get out of the terrorism business.