Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday. Pool photo by Carolyn KasterPush On Talks With Taliban Confirmed By NATO Officials -- New York Times
BRUSSELS — The United States is helping senior Taliban leaders attend initial peace talks with the Afghan government in Kabul because military officials and diplomats want to take advantage of any possibility of political reconciliation, Obama administration and NATO officials said Thursday.
Even as senior American officials cautioned that they were not yet ready to formally join a nascent peace effort with their Taliban foes of the past nine years, they acknowledged that the reconciliation effort was an important element in the American-led war in Afghanistan.
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