[Peace-discuss] Could a "Great Negotiation" End the War in Afghanistan?

[Robert Naiman]

A key obstacle to moving the debate on negotiations to end the war in
Afghanistan is that most Americans don't know much diplomatic history.
This ignorance makes us vulnerable to facile slogans: for the neocons,
it's a noun, a verb, and Neville Chamberlain. But Fredrik Stanton has
published a corrective: "Great Negotiations: Agreements that Changed
the Modern World" shows how U.S. leaders entered successful
negotiations with realistic goals for their adversaries. If President Obama
engages Taliban leaders as President Kennedy engaged Premier
Khrushchev, we could end the war.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/could-a-great-negotiation_b_643147.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/7/12/133610/993

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/645

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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org

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