<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=""><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-direct-negotiations.html" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-direct-negotiations.html</a><div class=""><br class="Apple-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; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">[@GarethPorter] "The </span><a class="_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/trump?source=feed_text" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" style="color: rgb(54, 88, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: isolate; font-family: inherit;"><span class="_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; orphans: 2; widows: 2; 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="_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/taliban?source=feed_text" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" style="color: rgb(54, 88, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: isolate; font-family: inherit;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="unicode-bidi: isolate; font-family: inherit;">#</span><span class="_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; orphans: 2; widows: 2; 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><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; orphans: 2; widows: 2; 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; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">—CGE</span></div></body></html>