I don't know if the Taliban are quite the wide-eyed innocents you make them seem (exaggeration for effect alert). They lost their power in the same way they gained it and the same way they are trying to regain it, through violence. They were hosting AQ before 9-11 and AQ attacked us several time before 9-11. They knew that and should hardly have been surprised if the foreign power got fed up and came in to attack them and their "guests". If they are miffed because the legalities weren't honored, they aren't the hard cases they appear to be.
The didn't hesitate in helping us. They refused. And the ISI encouraged them to refuse. At the time all those bodies were still moldering in the wreck of the World Trade Center. You bet we weren't in any mood to wait for them to get back to us.
I am still skeptical that any of this would work but you may be right, it might be worth a try, especially if it could be worked in such a way to peel off part of Taliban & company from the Pak Army/ISI. What kind of security bubble do you envision, where and who would be allowed into it?
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