Taliban Law Posted by Patrick Barry

This story from the WSJ is as sure a sign as any that the Taliban's resurgence has spilled over the border, back into Afghanistan:

The Taliban are setting up courts and other local-government institutions across southern Afghanistan, challenging U.S. efforts to pacify the country and bolster the authority of the central government in Kabul.

Senior American military officials said the Taliban run roughly two dozen law courts in southern Afghanistan, one of the armed Islamist group's main strongholds. Drawing on a fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic law, the courts work to resolve conflicts over property, grazing rights and inheritances, the officials said.

The Taliban have also appointed unofficial governors and mayors to exercise day-to-day control over remote areas, amounting to a parallel government independent of Kabul, according to the U.S. officials.

For the past few years, the most acute symptom of Afghanistan's worsening condition has been the steady uptick in violence, mostly resulting from insurgents coming across the border from Pakistan.  For the Taliban to be settling in Southern Afghanistan is a less destructive, but more potent signal that matters aren't going our way. 

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