Probably No U.S.-Taliban Deals Independent of Kabul? Maybe?
Reading President Obama’s endorsement of reconciliation efforts with the Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan, I wondered the other day whether the U.S. military would repeat its efforts in Iraq and seek to cut deals with particular insurgent outfits independent of the national government. At yesterday’s Pentagon briefing, a reporter whom I gather to be the Los Angeles Times’ Julian Barnes asked spokesman Geoff Morrell about that:
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