Guardian: Reports that ISI the Intelligence network of Pakistan is trying to set up a deal between President Karzai of Afghanistan and an Insurgent Commander in Afghanistan . This is the present problem with the NATO strategy in Afghanistan, what is the point of killing the Taliban / Al Qaeda if the Government your trying to build up is talking to the opposition, is the UK throwing away the lives of it its Armed Forces Personnel. If Karzai can not be trusted then a 1963 August green light is needed from the White House. Any strategy will fail if you have the Taliban / Al Qaeda on the one hand and in the other hand a Kabul Government that is afraid that the US will leave in 2011 and is starting backchannel talks with the opposition. President Obama did not help his Administration with the statement that the US would start to withdraw in 2011, this has set off alarm in Kabul thus the idea to have talks with the insurgent commanders on the ground. The exit route out of Afghanistan will be bloody folks and at the end of the day it would not surprised this blog to see a less anti Western Taliban in charge in Kabul.
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