<div dir="ltr">Agreed. <div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Robert Naiman<br>Policy Director<br>Just Foreign Policy<br><a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><div><span style="text-align:left">(202) 448-2898 x1</span></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br><br></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><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 11:51 AM, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><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"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-direct-negotiations.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/<wbr>07/15/world/asia/afghanistan-<wbr>taliban-direct-negotiations.<wbr>html</a><div><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)">[@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)"> 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)">. 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"><div><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)"><br></span></div><div><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)">—CGE</span></div></font></span></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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