US - Taliban Partnership: If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/16/James_Hoge_on_America_and_the_World

Foreign Affairs editor James Hoge argues that the U.S. needs reliable partners in Afghanistan in order to achieve success. He suggests that Karzai has thus far been a disappointment, and to meet the 2011 withdrawal deadline, the U.S. will need to work with unlikely partners like the Taliban.

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In a now famous 1997 Columbia Journalism Review article, James Hoge argued that the United States perceives the world beyond its borders as largely irrelevant. He argues that unless there is a serious crisis or war, or an international event directly relates to American interests, the nation and its media pay no attention. In this conversation, Hoge discusses changes in the media as well as within the fields of international affairs and foreign policy over the last decade.

James Hoge is editor of Foreign Affairs, a bi-monthly magazine of analysis and commentary on international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. Prior to joining Foreign Affairs in 1992, he worked in journalism for three decades as a Washington correspondent, editor and publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, and as publisher and president of the New York Daily News. He has been a fellow at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Freedom Forum Media Center at Columbia University, and the American Political Science Association's Congressional Fellowship Program. He is chairman of the International Center for Journalists, a director of Human Rights Watch, and a director of the Center for Global Affairs at New York University. Sponsored by the graduate program in International Affairs. - The New School

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[djsnakeyes]

in GOD we trust..Gold Oil & Drugs.

[Rickdeckard2020]

No alternatives?? youre half-way around the earth and you need to grab on to afghanistan like a parasite junky, what for? Opium? Gas? Showing China whose boss? No ones buying the propaganda, the US is an Empire with bases around the world, the alternative is to close shop and get back to the US, forget about putting in place a colonial puppet guy up every countrys a. Cut the opium and derivatives crap, audit the fed, Rebuild US infrastructure, manufacturing and drop medicine instead of bombs.

[maritzafrizell]

thanks for sharing….

[MrDaniel199019]

you want a solution? NUKE THE WHOLE COUNTRY. you will not kill innocent people...trust me, all the innocent and SANE people have left the country.

[Troy62486]

@Vorlos, lol yea people should go watch Rambo 3

[anglekan]

u.s got its ass whooped. stupd americans

[Vorlos]

@grizzzlyjoe

The WHOLE reason why the Taliban and Al Quaida are there is short sighted CIA-actions during the Cold war.

Look up the "Mujahideen"

[grizzzlyjoe]

What a sad commentary. After thousands of our soldiers have died, tens of thousands have been maimed for life and over a Trillion dollars squandered on these foolish Wars, the U.S. is talking about a working relationship with the Taliban... THE TALIBAN... they were the ones that gave safe haven to the Al-Queda terrorists that attacked on 9/11. The WHOLE reason we're there is the Taliban. If the U.S. Government wanted to "work" with them, why didn't they just say that up front in October 2001?

[MultiUniv3rsal]

@JCLeSinge So we invade Iraq and Afghanistan for resource exploitation?

Where is it? I don't see where all the money we stole from them is...

I guess Satan W. Bush put it all into his account in the Caymans. Seriously, there's an ounce of truth to what you say, but you need to learn a LOT more and see a larger picture.

So let's stop calling Republicans Hitler and Democrats Stalin. Respectable government has been trying to be as centrist as possible for us fickle citizens.

[MultiUniv3rsal]

@Re5Publica Absolutely 100% correct. Glad to see some informed statements here.

[Re5Publica]

@screwopenborders I was following your thought. There's a long tradition in international politics of making and breaking alliances. American colonials fought French soldiers 20 years before they fought together against the British.

But, I should've corrected you, Bin Laden was never in contact with the CIA or any U.S. official while he was a member of the mujahideen (which was basically any Muslim in Afghanistan who fought the soviets. Many mujahideen later fought Taliban and al-Qaeda.)