Kabul is the beating heart of Afghanistan. It is the centre of politics and commerce and culture, the place to which all roads here lead. This is why the Mujahedeen battled the Soviets so hard here in the 1980's and why the Taliban fought so desperately to capture it during the brutal civil war that followed.

Now, though the Taliban know that they cannot hope to reoccupy the city while international forces are in the country, keeping up attacks or at least maintaining the threat of attack, accomplishes two objectives. It acts as constant reminder to the politicians and public in the West that their troops should leave - and it reminds Afghans that once the foreigners are gone, the Taliban will be waiting.

It is true that the violence is still much worse in the provinces than in Kabul, but the Taliban, and their allies, the Haqqani network, are regularly able to bring fear and death to the very heart of the capital. This is quite a feat, considering the thousands of Afghan police and soldiers stationed on the streets, and manning the checkpoints that ring the city.

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2012/09/2012926183033267117.html

I am out of my depth here, but I think that Afghanistan should go back to its communist system in order to equalise everyone out... In its fledged history Afgahnistan was once communist, in order to remove religion out of the government... It should be objective number one... Of course the Yanks hated the communists more than they hated the Taliban so they helped the Taliban defeat the communists... Now, the US and the rest of the world are fighting the taliban... Go figure... Idiots...

In order to "progress", Afghanistan need to secularise its government and make sure people know that this concept is fully enforced... But religion, even in secular Turkey, is taking over people's mind in such country, not so much that secular government don't deliver improvements but the illusion of historic fanatcal souls is taking over, once more... 

Well may be not completely "communist" but certainly socialist...