[Peace-discuss] Can the U.S. Negotiate Peace in Afghanistan?

[C. G. Estabrook]

  See also Jonathan Steele on the neo-Taliban:

"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..." 
<http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n17/jonathan-steele/diary>.

Jonathan Steele, a former chief foreign correspondent for the /Guardian/, has 
reported regularly from Afghanistan since 1981. /Defeat: Why They Lost Iraq/ 
came out in paperback last year.


On 9/17/10 7:25 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
> Indeed.
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> 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
> http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LI11Df04.html
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> Taliban soften as talks gain speed
> Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times, Sep 15, 2010
> http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LI15Df02.html
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> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:59 PM, C. G. Estabrook<galliher at illinois.edu>  wrote:
>>   Yes, if it wants to.
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