after a decade of war look like the Taliban has won and are now becoming a recognized governing power.
Representatives of the Taliban took a seat at a conference table in Moscow on Friday alongside members of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council, in a forum the Russian Foreign Ministry has billed as an unprecedented event.
To be clear, Friday’s discussions are not peace talks. In opening remarks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday’s conference – the second session in a series dubbed the “Moscow format” – was meant to encourage an atmosphere for dialogue between the warring sides in Afghanistan’s long-running civil war.
Might just be the means to pull their fangs - get them invested in the system.
Well………….I don’t think they are harboring Osama Bin Laden anymore.
This was the inevitable conclusion.
Afghanistan has never been and never will be a nation state.
