Ill considered and dastardly move.Remember Pakistan’s ‘Deal’ with SWAT’ area?What came of it? more bombings-What of LTTE truce?-you allowed them to regroup.
Recall Chamberlain?Result ,Hitler over ran Europe.
Go after terrorists hammer and tongs with these killers;any negotiation shall weaken the State and embolden the terrorists.Most importantly, the war has to be fought by Afghans by themselves with hardware from other Nations and at the same time economic inequalities must be addressed to and a reformist agenda is to be put in place by the Islamic moderates to wean youngsters from joining the fundamentalists by propagating moderate Islam.
Involving Foreigners shall alienate the people and the menace of Terrorism shall grow beyond manageable proportion
Story:
LONDON — Afghanistan’s president declared Thursday that reaching out to the Taliban’s leadership would be a centerpiece of his plan to end the eight-year-old war in his country, setting in motion a risky diplomatic gambit that could aggravate frictionswith the United States.
A 65-nation conference here intended to muster money and support for an Afghan war strategy instead exposed divisions between the Afghan government and its allies over the timetable for drawing down foreign forces and whether and how to reconcile with the leaders of the Taliban insurgency.
“We must reach out to all of our countrymen, especially our disenchanted brothers,” President Hamid Karzai said. In the coming weeks, he said, he will invite Taliban leaders to a tribal assembly to try to persuade them to lay down their weapons and join the government.
Mr. Karzai’s proposal went much further than the strategy preferred by many American officials, who favor luring back low- and midlevel Taliban fighters. The Obama administration is in the middle of a spirited debate over the implications of negotiating with top Taliban leaders who sheltered Osama bin Laden and still have ties to Al Qaeda.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/world/asia/29diplo.html
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