Taliban can be admired for loyalty: Bishop

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LONDON, Dec 14 (AFP): The Taliban can be admired for conviction to their faith and sense of loyalty to one another, according to the new bishop of Britain's armed forces, in comments published late Sunday.
The Church of England's Right Reverend Stephen Venner said it would be harder to reach a peaceful solution to the war in Afghanistan if the Taliban insurgents were all portrayed as "pure evil."
The bishop said that some of their methods of combat were not honourable or acceptable.
"To blanket them all as evil and paint them as black is not helpful in a very complex situation."