If you beak the back of the organization, the members will lose collaboration. It will cause them to devolve from a terrorist organization to a few bands of rogue terrorists.
But see, this is the confusion. We are not breaking their backs. It is true, they have lost many since 2001 after America went crazy status in Afghanistan.
But look deeper into it, I've seen wikileaks videos and CNN reviews where drone attacks misfire, where people see cameramen and shoot them.
In all honesty, if terrorists are so small in numbers as many tell us they are -- why do they keep coming back? This organization is finding new members because we are doing what we have always done in the region, assert our control with military power. By doing so, we piss people off, we make them hate America, we make them lose their homes and look towards religion, which makes them vulnerable to having their religious beliefs twisted.
Honestly, would you rather be a poor farmer or a boss-status revolutionary fighting on the side of God against the most powerful country on earth?
Option two sounds kinda cool
I just have a feeling that the Taliban will always find ways to grow, and because of that, these peace talks won't go to smoothly. Otherwise why did this war last so long? If we keep doing what we've been doing I doubt we're to make progress.
