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Posts Tagged karzai-taliban talks

Shadow-Pentagon Think Tank Releases New AfghaniPakistan Policy Paper

By | 01.23.09 | 12:50 pm

Remember the Center for a New American Security, the counterinsurgent-heavy defense think tank that used to be run by Michele Flournoy and Kurt Campbell before they became, respectively, undersecretary of defense for policy and assistant secretary of state for East Asia? Several other scholars at the think More…

Big T, Little T: McKiernan on the Karzai-Taliban Peace Talks

By | 11.19.08 | 11:47 am

When last I heard from Gen. David McKiernan, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, it was early October and he was only grudgingly in favor of supporting Hamid Karzai’s then-fledging outreach to the Taliban. (It was literally the last question McKiernan took as he was leaving his Newseum press More…

Do I Talk About the Karzai-Taliban Negotiations in Platitudes?

By | 10.31.08 | 2:00 pm

Joshua Foust says I’ve been writing too many platitudes about the Karzai-Taliban negotiations. I think he means I’m guilty of wishful thinking, and I can see how he has a point there, at least in the breezy block quote he picks out. So let me take up this question: