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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AP" data-source="post: 2837008" data-attributes="member: 123457">You aren't comparing like-for-like.  The USA is a country, while the Taliban is a political organisation.If you compared the popularity of the USA with that of Afghanistan then that would be a valid comparison (and I suspect that the results would disappoint you, but probably not surprise you!  )If you compared the popularity of the Taliban within Afghanistan with the popularity of (say) the Republican Party within the USA, then that might be a closer contest.  (Which is a rather flippant point, but one which I find vaguely amusing.)</blockquote>