A U.S. Special Forces soldier provides security overwatch in the early morning hours during an Afghan-led clearing operation in the Zharay district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, March 6, 2011. He is assigned to Special Operations Task Force South. The operation led to the recovery of 200 pounds of homemade explosives. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Daniel P. ShooU.S., Taliban Not Ready For Afghanistan Peace Talks -- David Wood, Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- As the Afghan war’s 10th fighting season gets underway, both U.S.-led troops and Taliban insurgents are battered and bloodied. Military and civilian casualties are piling up on both sides. But prospects for peace talks seem remote, and international diplomats and others say any actual settlement is years away.
And yet, conditions for negotiations seem to have been reached: Neither the Taliban nor the United States has demonstrated the ability to conclusively defeat the enemy on the battlefield, and neither has been able to provide Afghans across the country with honest, effective government.
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