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Wasn't there some agreement in place recently (maybe it was in Pakistan) that gave control of certain areas to the Taliban in exchange for their agreement to stay out of other areas? IIRC, that fell apart because the Taliban didn't stick to the bargain. Which is to be expected, really. When you're fighting against the forces of Satan, you aren't really bound by any agreement you make with them.
Stability will spell the end of the Taliban, but it's really easy for them to destabilize things. We have to set up a transition scheme that strongly discourages them from destabilizing society at every step of that transition. Perhaps bribing their leaders with prestige, legitimacy, a steady paycheck and a few ideological concessions is the best price we can hope to pay for the stability that's needed.
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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.
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