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What Kind of Negotiations Should There Be Between Karzai and The Taliban?
Started by washingtonindependent · 9 months ago
Peter Bergen asks a great question: Since we’re seeing movement toward Karzai-Taliban negotiations, what kind of negotiations should there be?
Should everything be on the table? Who should be brought in and who should be left out?
Nir Rosen: “A lot of&hellip ... Continue reading »
Should everything be on the table? Who should be brought in and who should be left out?
Nir Rosen: “A lot of&hellip ... Continue reading »
7 months ago
The other thing that tribe trumps is government. We persist in pretending that Afghanistan is a nation at war with an ideology. That's not what's happening to afghan eyes. To them, it's one more round in the thousands of years to tribal power struggles. As long as our ideological blinders prevent us from even seeing what's happening as it is, not what our ideology needs it to be, we're going to go on failing.
Karzai will be talking about splitting up the power pie. Who's going to rule which districts. Who's going to get paid, and how much. Other markers include the heroin trade, access to 'development' funds, and lip service to which alien model of government. Just as the present Afghan 'government' carefully laundered the warlords of the Northern Alliance by naming them regional governors, etc., so too is the Taliban going to have to be laundered in a similar manner.