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See also Jonathan Steele on the neo-Taliban:<br>
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"Until the Obama administration comes round to the idea of
negotiations, progress is stalled ... But Obama will have to move at
some point from his ‘reconciliation’ policy to one of
‘accommodation’. That means taking the Taliban’s grievances on board
and being willing to address them in a compromise deal that is
likely to involve the formation of a power-sharing government in
Kabul in return for a US withdrawal. The US public is growing
steadily more disillusioned with what is already America’s longest
war..." <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n17/jonathan-steele/diary"><http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n17/jonathan-steele/diary></a>.<br>
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Jonathan Steele, a former chief foreign correspondent for the <em>Guardian</em>,
has reported regularly from Afghanistan since 1981. <em>Defeat: Why
They Lost Iraq</em> came out in paperback last year.<br>
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On 9/17/10 7:25 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Indeed.
There's a bit of new data, which I was not aware of when I wrote this...
Taliban and US get down to talks
Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times, Sep 11, 2010
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LI11Df04.html">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LI11Df04.html</a>
Taliban soften as talks gain speed
Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times, Sep 15, 2010
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LI15Df02.html">http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LI15Df02.html</a>
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:59 PM, C. G. Estabrook <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu"><galliher@illinois.edu></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> Yes, if it wants to.
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