For those Taliban apologists claiming the sheepshaggers have "evolved and matured", remember New Coke

Afghanistan VP tells Lara Logan al Qaeda and the Taliban are like Coke and Pepsi

"Ideologically, the difference between ISIS, al Qaeda and the Taliban is the difference between the taste of Coke and Pepsi," he said. "If you remove the labels, can you say which one is Coke and which one is Pepsi?" he asked.

Two months after launching its new version, after a huge, multi-million-dollar national media campaign yielded disastrous results, Coke pulled the plug on the product and returned to “Classic Coke”. The difference here is, Coke executives actually intended to change the original winning formula.