Week in Review: Negotiating with the Taliban
By The Irreverent Homemaker on February 1, 2010
The idea of a negotiated settlement to the Afghan war gained new currency this week. At a conference in London, Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed to the international community to help his government reintegrate disaffected Taliban fighters.
And today a UN official said its mission chief had met with Taliban representatives earlier this month in a diplomatic overture.
In our weekly roundtable, James Rubin, an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a former assistant secretary of state in the Clinton administration, and Gideon Rose of Foreign Affairs magazine, join Daljit Dhaliwal to discuss the pitfalls and possibilities of negotiating with the Taliban.
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David Chater of Al Jazeera English reports on talk held in Maldives between Taliban commanders and Afghan government officials.
The idea of a negotiated settlement to the Afghan war gained new currency this week. In our weekly roundtable, James Rubin, a former assistant secretary of state in the Clinton administration, and Gideon Rose of Foreign Affairs magazine, join Daljit Dhaliwal to discuss the pitfalls and possibilities of negotiating with the Taliban.
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