<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’m sure the Congressional Democrats will praise the initiative…<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 16, 2018, at 10:53 AM, Robert Naiman <<a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" class="">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Agreed. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Robert Naiman<br class="">Policy Director<br class="">Just Foreign Policy<br class=""><a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/" target="_blank" class="">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br class=""><a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank" class="">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br class=""><div class=""><span style="text-align:left" class="">(202) 448-2898 x1</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 11:51 AM, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-direct-negotiations.html" target="_blank" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/<wbr class="">07/15/world/asia/afghanistan-<wbr class="">taliban-direct-negotiations.<wbr class="">html</a><div class=""><br class="m_-8617871643439406222Apple-interchange-newline"><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">[@GarethPorter] "The </span><a class="m_-8617871643439406222_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/trump?source=feed_text" style="color:rgb(54,88,153);text-decoration:none;font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank"><span class="m_-8617871643439406222_5afx" style="direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-family:inherit"><span class="m_-8617871643439406222_58cm" style="font-family:inherit">Trump</span></span></a><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""> administration has done something neither Bush nor Obama was ever willing to do: open direct bilateral peace talks with the </span><a class="m_-8617871643439406222_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/taliban?source=feed_text" style="color:rgb(54,88,153);text-decoration:none;font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank"><span class="m_-8617871643439406222_5afx" style="direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-family:inherit"><span class="m_-8617871643439406222_58cl m_-8617871643439406222_5afz" style="unicode-bidi:isolate;font-family:inherit">#</span><span class="m_-8617871643439406222_58cm" style="font-family:inherit">Taliban</span></span></a><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">. That is a measure of the futility of the U.S. war in Afghanistan and Trump's determination to end it.” </span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">—CGE</span></div></font></span></div><br class="">______________________________<wbr class="">_________________<br class="">
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