Dispatch: U.S.-Taliban Negotiations

Stratfor Director of Military Analysis Nathan Hughes discusses the recent progress in U.S.-Taliban negotiations and its implications for the future of the war in Afghanistan.
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[helix4811]

@AussieTheOztralian

Funny thing is, the Taliban were never on the US list of foreign or Domestic terrorist list, so to them, your statement is completely wrong...

[AussieTheOztralian]

I guess America does negotiate with Terrorists after all...

[Ilovejews18]

afghanistab belongs to pakistan end off

[manofsan]

(cont'd) This forces Pakistan to ramp up Taliban's Islamist Holy War character, in order to bolster it to conquer the north and preserve Afghanistan's existing borders, which Pakistan cannot afford to let collapse at any cost. This automatically gives Taliban an affinity with transnational Islamist groups (eg. AlQaeda) and Taliban is under no obligation to maintain any agreements with Americans once they've withdrawn from the region. Taliban can afford to break their word to America later on.

[manofsan]

Dear Stratfor - while it's certainly in Pakistan's interests to direct Taliban to separate themselves from trans-nationalist Islamist groups like AlQaeda in order to facilitate the US withdrawal, why would that continue to be the case after said withdrawal? Remember, Pakistan needs to use Taliban to take over Afghanistan in order to prevent the collapse of the Durand Line. However, the problem is that Northern Afghanistan is not Pashtun like Taliban, and won't cooperate. (to be cont'd)

[Vann7]

i think Russia main problem is their lack of allies.Because many countries in Europe and middle east in any conflict always side withe the country that they believe will win in the end so that it doesnt backfire them later . Russia could had worked more to make India and CHina to solve their differences and create an strategic partnership for mutual backup and defense. and maybe also Turkey that could have done a huge difference to counter any US/ NATO plans for the middle east.

[JustinYoelSkaat]

@arsacesofconcobar focus on the analysis, not the way he dresses.

[arsacesofconcobar]

Hey Nate, next time you dress up nice and tidy for a dispatch, lose the t-shirt underneath the dress shirt. A faux pas like that pulls up the dweeb-factor by a ten-fold.

[arsacesofconcobar]

@TheTruthArmy Oh but why is this such a paradox to you? When the Soviet invaded Afghanistan, the US wasn't exactly hesitant to supply arms and other material resources to the Mujahedin (Also known as the root precursor to the Taliban movement) in order to fight the scary Reds.

They will talk. Count on it. All jackals, reptiles and vultures speak the same language, never mind the dialect ;]

[arsacesofconcobar]

@infokemp Actually, the 9/11 was just used as a pretext for America to launch two vindictive and extremely fruitless (Not to mention expensive) wars in the Middle East and precipitating a global economic collapse.

It gave America the perfect excuse to exercise its global hegemony with little regard for civilians in both Afghanistan and Iraq who either had nothing to do with 9/11 or no knowledge of the event. 9/11 became their 24/7. We should be discussing war-crimes here.