Can the Taliban be tamed?

Can Obama succeed where Alexander the Great, the British Empire and the Soviet Union failed ?

Read this stanza written by Rudyard Kipling ( yes ) in 1892 and decide for yourself.

From " The young British soldier."

When you're wounded and left
On Afghanistan's plains,

And the women come out
to cut up what remains,

Jest roll to your rifle and blow
out your brains,

An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.