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"Just as the Obama administration hoped to start peace talks with the Taliban and the government of Afghanistan in Doha, Qatar, the Taliban launched an attack on President Hamid Karzai's compound in Kabul. There is virtually no downside for the Taliban to such attacks, since the Obama administration has long signaled that it intends to withdraw forces from Afghanistan regardless of the outcome of negotiations."

Breitbart
 
Over 100 Afghan diplomats defect rather than return to Kabul

When U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the Administration aren't begging Russia to return Edward Snowden or to stop supporting Bashar al-Assad, they're begging the Afghanistan Taliban to hold peace talks.

The U.S. Administration has been so desperate to get the Afghan Taliban to have peace talks, they've even dropped the preconditions announced last year by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: They must forego suicide talks and violence, they must sever ties with al-Qaeda, and they must accept Afghanistan's constitution, including protections for women and minority. The Taliban have rejected all of these demands, and the Administration have acquiesced.

It now turns out that some 105 Afghanistan diplomats defected en masse on Saturday, when they were all supposed to return to Kabul for scheduled rotation. They've remained in the country where they have been posted, and said that they would apply for asylum in their respective host countries. Many Afghan diplomats are the sons and daughters of high-ranking politicians who are also trying to go abroad as soon as possible and stay there until the situation in Afghanistan becomes clearer.

The U.S. could use a diplomatic victory about now. Let's see where Snowden ends up. Spiegel and South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP)
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/...-diplomats-defect-rather-than-return-to-Kabul
 
With their deep roots in a primitive tribal society and dedicated to an authoritarian religion, the Taliban have waited while waging a growing guerrilla campaign. Wiping them out in some of the world’s most demanding terrain was always going to be extremely difficult. It was in fact an effort to remold a culture, a gigantic task but one postwar American had helped accomplish in Nazi-conquered Europe, war devastated Japan and South Korea and beleaguered Taiwan.

More than anything else it required dedication that the Taliban could not mistake as a temporary engagement. Perhaps with some long past their proper sunset date, it is important to remember that keeping world peace has meant a continued U.S. military presence from Iceland [finally out in 2006] to Japan for nearly three-quarters of a century.

Although badly hammered by a highly professional and technocratic U.S. military, there is no reason to believe the Taliban’s commitment to its ideology has changed. Its leadership is as ignorant, fanatical and demented as it has always been — characterized by making its own co-religionists major targets in its campaign of terror.

\But the U.S. public is tired of war, critical of vast treasure expended while the Great Recession lingers at home. The always short attention span of a continental society with so many diversions, trivial and serious, is exhausted.
Sol W. Sanders, World Tribune
http://www.worldtribune.com/2013/06/24/when-the-u-s-loses-resolve-the-afghanistan-vietnam-parallels/
 
Sorry Chief, but it looks like your cherished Glibertarian dream of perpetual war will not be realized in your lifetime.
 
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