A day after Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the United States is in preliminary talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan to quell the violence, experts say don't expect miracle results.
Michael O'Hanlon, a national security expert at the nonpartisan Brookings Institution, said negotiating with "Taliban Central" will be difficult, especially because of the hard-core ideology espoused by Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar and the powerful Haqqani network.
An effective strategy the U.S. and its allies can employ is reaching out to local insurgents, O'Hanlon said.
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Not sure what the talks will really be about. It's quite simple – either the Taliban disperses and stops murdering or the world will exterminate them. That sound about right to everyone else? Pretty clean cut and dried to us.
I'm very pleasantly surprised at the fact that there any peace talks at all. I only hope that these talks will long last produce a very badly needed peace in that country. It is soarly needed. I know that a lot of right-wing fanatics will get quite upset over it. Well, let them!!!!!!!
Is that you banasy?
There will be no peace. Even when there was peace, there was no peace. All Afghanistan has going for it are poppies.. And no one wants them.. Legally.. We need to walk away
@ Jazzzzzzzz:
No, that was not banasy: she can spell "sorely," and I'm surprised that the troll didn't, or even couldn't. Perhaps he was mocking banasy.
Sorry to inform you Joey but that wasn't me either. I've been playing with my knew phone trying to get use to doing the key pad with my thumbs. I had a (number pad) before and went faster. Grrrrrr O-well this one has a lot more options. I'll get use to though. 🙂
Somebody else posted "soarly" (sic) today. I think it was one of the denial-drenched drug addicts who were telling me how old I must be.
I don't think of myself as "old" at all: I'm 115 years young.
I'm going to ask the nurses to figure out my date of birth again. Can I reach this cord...no...the diaper's wet...
Let's see if I can do it...was I born in–20...no, 115 minus 11 is 4...
I was born in (about) 1896.
That's right.
Was I born in 1896?
'Bout then.
I guess.
The Taliban representatives will tell the US whatever it is they want to hear, just to get us out of their country. Once our forces are gone, it will be as it always was. But if the US wants to make a really smart move, get our warriors out of the place we should have been in the first place.
Joey,I really do wish the trolls would be blocked by CNN. Do you think it will ever happen? The thought of you or banasy never posting again scars me. I hope you two stay here for a long long time.
Sure after a decade and 120 billion dollars down the drain, 1600 American fallen soldiers and counting this is the right thing to do.
There is one little thing though? Why couldn't we think of this say 5 years earlier & save tens of thousands of lives? Or when Taliban offered to hand over Osama Bin Laden to us if we could provide evidence that he was behind 9/11 attacks?? Well we do not have the evidence but we could have manufactured something.
@saywhat: No amount of evidence would've been sufficient for the Taliban, indeed there are some Americans that don't believe he had anything to do with it, such as Charlie Sheen.