Taliban moving towards peace talks with US over war in Afghanistan

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

I find it funny that they talk about this now. Back in 2004 and 2005 many US commanders in Afghanistan wanted to talk with the Taliban back then and come to some sort of deal and at the time it would have been possible to talk but I guess the US government wanted to spend 10 more years and achieve nothing long term.Go figure.

Here is an article from 2011 though some US commanders have wanted to talk to the Taliban for nearly ten years.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-at-night.html

We deal with Saudi Arabia, Taliban not much worse.