Question: We're so close.
We have gone very far.

Answer: it is not possible to tell

Question: Dimly aware of this problem, Murray brings in a more sweeping illegitimacy thesis--government is unjustified--to trump all the others.
Murray sat and listened, realizing he had nothing to add to the discussion.

Answer: no

Question: The Taliban is both a product of and a reaction to the civil war that has gripped Afghanistan since the demise of the Soviet-backed regime in 1992.
The Taliban was created by the United States government.

Answer:
no