Michael took this line last year. I don’t get it. How do you negotiate with people whose first priority is to kill you?
Actually, now that I think about it, all we have to do is look at the mess the Brits made of Basra to see how “talking to the Taliban” would work out.
In exchange for laying down their arms, the Taliban would demand that they be allowed to treat the Afghans the way the Brits let the Shi’ite fanatics treat the Basrans. The Brits let young women be murdered and raped for not dressing right. Is this what we as Americans want?
No Basra in Afghanistan, I say.
“How do you negotiate with people whose first priority is to kill you?”
You don’t.