How did this happen?!

For all their fear, brutality and death-cult violence... the Taliban have something to believe in, and it drives them to defeat vastly more powerful armies. The new Western order cannot win hearts and minds, cannot beat rag tag groups of 300 fighters. The fanatical Communists of the 1950's were vastly outnumbered... but won. The religious zealots of this present age are vastly outnumbered... but consistently win.

Why? The power of a cause - a creed - a holistic vision...