What those cartoons mean is that we're pouring money down the drain in Afghanistan when the Taliban are going to eventually win anyway when the crusaders tire of their expensive warmongering and go home.
The Afghans saw off the Soviet Union and they saw off the Poms before that.
Nobody has managed to subdue Afghanistan in more than two thousand years and it will be no different this time.
Eventually, the crusaders will go home with their tails between their legs and carrying their dead and the Taliban will win by default. And if it isn't the Taliban, then it will be some other despot group in Afghanistan.
And do you know what is hilariously funny? The Americans are frothing at the mouth accusing Pakistan of arming and supporting insurgents in Afghanistan. Yet the Americans were arming and supporting the insurgents when the last lot of crusaders (the Soviet Union) were occupying Afghanistan and attempting to subdue them. Talk about the Pot calling the Kettle black, eh? I guess it also shows that the saying “what goes around, comes around” is true! The 'mericans supported an insurgency in Afghanistan, now they are on the receiving end of an insurgency in Afghanistan supported by someone else.
Faaaaaark!!