Taliban leaders meet to discuss strategy: Gordon Brown had told Parliament that there would not be any negotiations (Photo from The Telegraph)From Aviation Week:
There’s been a lot of talk lately about opening negotiations with the Taliban—or at least trying to pull in the “reconcilables” while continuing to kill the “unreconcilables”—which has created a lot of back and forth in hotbeds for debate about counterinsurgency tactics and procedures, like the Small Wars Journal and Abu Muquwama blogs.
On Sunday, Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan, upped the ante considerably by daring Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader hiding somewhere in northwest Pakistan, to come to Kabul for negotiations.
Speaking of Mr. Omar, Mr. Karzai said, “If I hear from him that he is prepared to come to Afghanistan or negotiate for peace, I, as president of Afghanistan, will go to any length providing protection.”
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My Comment: There are hundreds of different tribes in the region .... I am sure that we can find a few that are unsympathetic to the Taliban.