Afghanistan and Taliban Issue?

Afghanistan, whenever I come across this country, either in newspapers of even movies, it’s that dry parched land with no peace while humanity suffers to the extremes, with inadequate facility, lack of education, where bombs shower like rains and every child after 12 knows how to use the gun there are many such little boys used as suicide bombers by convincing them that when they press the switch, flowers will fall on them. While thousands stand in Afghanistan in the name of Jihaad, destroying homes and killing innocent lives, this state of immense tumult dates back from the Russian Invasion and now by the ISAF, however the local people comment that the Russians came as occupiers but they respected the culture, the religion and traditions of the country. NATO does not have any respect for any human being or human rights. It's like (being invited to) a friendly dinner where they poison you. The Russians were not killing innocent men, women and children and old people. If they were fighting, it was fighting face to face. Now NATO and the Americans are bombarding villages, and they don't care who is killed." Their views are echoed among members of the international community in Kabul. "The foreign forces were seen two years ago as liberators; now they're seen as occupiers,"- this is the present state of Afghanistan who is slapped from all the sides even if they have no say in anything while US forces come and rule, killing the innocent people just to vent the anger of their incapability to find Osama Bin Laden, even if Afghanistan has claimed that he is just a guest, but even if there is no proof, US continues to bombard while Taliban resists while the common mass suffers by losing their homes, family members, women lose their freedom, girls aren’t allowed to go to school and the situation is deeply grievous. The rising discontent is exacerbated by soaring food prices and the Government's failure to translate the billions of aid dollars into factories, jobs or economic opportunities for ordinary Afghans.
The Taliban ("Students of Islamic Knowledge Movement") ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001. They came to power during Afghanistan's long civil war. Although they managed to hold 90% of the country's territory, their policies—including their treatment of women and support of terrorists—ostracized them from the world community.
The Taliban, under the direction of Mullah Muhammad Omar, brought about this order through the institution of a very strict interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law. Public executions and punishments (such as floggings) became regular events at Afghan soccer stadiums. Frivolous activities, like kite-flying, were outlawed. In order to root out "non-Islamic" influence, television, music, and the Internet were banned. Men were required to wear beards, and subjected to beatings if they didn't. Women were also prohibited from leaving their home without a male relative—those that did so risked being beaten, even shot, by officers of the "ministry for the protection of virtue and prevention of vice." A woman caught wearing fingernail polish may have had her fingertips chopped off. All these heights of inhumanity, according to the Taliban, was to safeguard women and their honor.
The Afghanistan's civil war commenced and continued until the end of 2001. The Taliban's strongest opposition came from the Northern Alliance, which held the Northeast corner of the country (about 10% of Afghanistan). The Northern Alliance comprises numerous anti-Taliban factions. Generally, the factions break down according to religion and ethnicity. While the Taliban is made up mostly Sunni Muslim Pashtuns (also referred to as Pathans), the Northern Alliance includes Tajiks, Hazara, Uzbeks, and Turkmen. The Hazara, and some other smaller ethnic groups, are Shiites. The Ismaili community, which suffered in Taliban-occupied areas, also supports the Northern Alliance. Although the Taliban called for a negotiated end to the civil war, they continued to mount new offensives. In September 2001, the leader of the Northern Alliance, Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, died from wounds suffered in a suicide bombing, allegedly carried out by al-Qaeda, a terrorist organization with close ties to the Taliban.

The Taliban was outrushed from power in December 2001 by the U.S. military and Afghani opposition forces in response to the September 11, 200, terrorist attack on the U.S. The initial attack removed the Taliban from power, but Taliban forces have since regained some strength. The war has been less successful in achieving the goal of restricting al-Qaeda's movement. Since 2006, Afghanistan has seen threats to its stability from increased Taliban-led insurgent activity, record-high levels of illegal drug production, especially after the US invasion, now making Afghanistan the largest producer of opium in the world. While the Government remains fragile, thousands of lives being lost, the U.S. military Operation Enduring Freedom, was launched by the United States with the United Kingdom in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. The stated purpose of the invasion was to capture Osama bin Laden, destroy al-Qaeda, and remove the Taliban regime which had provided support and safe harbor to al-Qaeda. The United States' Bush Doctrine stated that, as policy, it would not distinguish between al-Qaeda and nations that harbor them but even after years, the war has been unsuccessful in its primary purpose of capturing Osama bin Laden while the resources are being drained out just in search of a single person and the innocent Afghans are paying a heavy cost for it.
President Bush issued an ultimatum demanding that the Taliban government of Afghanistan:
• deliver al-Qaeda leaders located in Afghanistan to the United States authorities
• release all imprisoned foreign nationals, including American citizens[31]
• protect foreign journalists, diplomats, and aid workers in Afghanistan
• close terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and "hand over every terrorist and every person and their support structure to appropriate authorities"
• give the United States full access to terrorist training camps to verify their closure
"They will hand over the terrorists or they will share in their fate" said Bush. No specifics were attached to the threat, though there followed a statement suggesting military action: "Our war on terror
They also stressed that bin Laden was a guest in their country. October 14, 2001, seven days into the U.S./British bombing campaign, the Taliban offered to surrender Osama bin Laden to a third country for trial, if the bombing halted and they were shown evidence of his involvement in the September 11 terrorist attacks. This offer was also rejected by U.S. President Bush, who declared "There's no need to discuss innocence or guilt. We know he's guilty
The Taliban regime faced international scrutiny and condemnation for its policies. Only Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates recognized the Taliban as Afghanistan's legitimate government. After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the U.S., Saudi Arabia and the UAE cut diplomatic ties with the Taliban.

The Taliban allowed terrorist organizations to run training camps in their territory and, from 1994 to at least 2001, provided refuge for Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organization. The relationship between the Taliban and bin Laden is close, even familial—bin Laden fought with the mujahideen, has financed the Taliban. Since then, the Taliban have survived several U.S. and NATO campaigns intended to eliminate them as a significant guerrilla force. Aided by the renewed warlordism and corruption as well as a largely moribund Afghan economy, they have reestablished training camps in Pakistan, mainly in Baluchistan and North and South Waziristan, and continue to draw students from religious schools there.
This war between two individuals and in a quest to fight back and prove the strength seems very vague while US goes on spending millions of dollars uselessly like the majority of the world, I too personally feel, US should drawback its military forces and more than proving its strength by killing more, it should be used in the constructive measures and continue providing relief to the innocent Afghans by proving food and refuge. Even The United Nations World Food Programme temporarily suspended activities within Afghanistan at the beginning of the bombing attacks but it resumed them after the fall of the Taliban.