World Opinion Search » Taliban http://worldopinionsearch.com/v1 Find the best opinion journalism anywhere in the world Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:55:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Will Karzai break with the west? http://worldopinionsearch.com/v1/2010/11/23/will-karzai-break-with-the-west/ http://worldopinionsearch.com/v1/2010/11/23/will-karzai-break-with-the-west/#comments Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:00:25 +0000 Jefferson Morley http://worldopinionsearch.com/v1/?p=1644 If we don’t negotiate with the Taliban, he will. So says Ahmed Rashiid in FT.com with a bottom line policy recommendation that the wounded White House won’t like:

If Mr Karzai and most Afghans really do want peace talks with the Taliban then that should be Nato’s focus.

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That’s not the only problem with talking to the Taliban  but it is true that the world’s biggest secular democracy is a forgotten factor in Afpak politics.

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