Talking to Taliban

 

They are all willing to talk. The American government is trying to talk to the Afghan Taliban to establish peace in Afghanistan and avoid attacks on their retreating forces. The Pakistan government is trying to talk to The Pakistani Taliban to end the insurgency and regular killings of innocent civilians. If all those concerned had opened their mouths a few years earlier many innocent lives would have been saved. In fact if the Americans would have tried to negotiate with the Al-Qaida instead of firing Tomahawks on them from aircraft carriers near Pakistani shores, 9/11 could have been avoided.

So what will happen if the negotiations between the Americans and the Taliban succeed? The American and other NATO troops will get safe exit from Afghanistan, the Taliban will participate in the next elections and once again there will be the rule of Mullah Omar in Afghanistan.

 

The post-2014 situation in Afghanistan would hardly be any different from the pre-9/11 situation except for two changes:

a)      There will be no Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaida in Afghanistan.

b)      There will be a massive Indian presence and trade which was non-existent in the pre-9/11 era.

So what was the real objective of the whole exercise that cost billions of dollars and thousands of lives and who was behind all this?