Stardate 20011124.0617 (On Screen): There are
still men in Pakistan who want to volunteer to serve a soldiers for the Taliban. But the Taliban is, remarkably, turning them down. Quite right, too, because at this point the limiting factor on the ability of the Taliban to operate is supplies, not warm bodies. They no longer have access to a significant source of supply, so now they're using up stockpiles. The more warm bodies they have, the less time their supplies will last.
(discuss)It's also not obvious how the volunteers would actually get to Taliban-controlled territory at this point.
