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When you say things like, We have to wipe out the Taliban, what do

When you say things like, We have to wipe out the Taliban, what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway. – Arundhati Roy

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