I didn't say they were not belligerent/insurgents. I said they could be something else than Taliban. And yes, not everyone the US/NATO is fighting is a Taliban, that's just why I said it. If you just watch the news or listen to NATO politicians/generals in the media, you get that impression though. It doesn't fit their program as well when they're saying they're also fighting people who resist the foreign occupation of their country.

This is not a value statement, I just don't sense a lot of nuance when I hear/read about this stuff. Every fighting Afghan seems to be a Taliban or a member of al-Qaeda.