Robert Naiman, The Huffington Post, May 7, 2010
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is coming to Washington next week to meet with President Obama. Afghan government officials have said that their top priority for these talks is to get President Obama to agree that the U.S. will fully back efforts of the Afghan government to reconcile with senior leaders of the Afghan Taliban insurgency in order to end the war.
On the merits, saying yes to the Afghan government’s request for US support for peace talks would seem like a no-brainer.
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Will Obama Say Yes to Afghan Peace Talks?
Robert Naiman, The Huffington Post, May 7, 2010
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is coming to Washington next week to meet with President Obama. Afghan government officials have said that their top priority for these talks is to get President Obama to agree that the U.S. will fully back efforts of the Afghan government to reconcile with senior leaders of the Afghan Taliban insurgency in order to end the war.
On the merits, saying yes to the Afghan government’s request for US support for peace talks would seem like a no-brainer.
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Tags: Afghan government and Taliban, Afghanistan, peace talks, President Hamid Karzai, President Obama, Robert Naiman, war
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