We ahve argued that US policy is nothing but duplicity and that Afghans are innocent victims of their governments collusion with the duplicyt of the US/ISAF
Look at this and decide, especially the Afghan forum members:
US helped promote talks with Taliban: Gen Petraeus
Thursday, 26 Aug, 2010
WASHINGTON: The US commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday said he supported efforts to broker a settlement with the Taliban and that the United States had helped promote dialogue with militants in some isolated cases.
In an interview with the Fox News channel, Gen David Petraeus said the Afghan government was leading the effort to open talks with Taliban leaders while the United States closely followed the process.
The US is very much in the information loop and in a couple of cases has helped in a sense, but is not doing the negotiation, Gen Petraeus said, according to excerpts of the interview.
Actually in a couple of isolated cases theres been a degree of facilitation, if you will, he said.
The war in Afghanistan would have to end based on a negotiation, like other insurgencies elsewhere, including Iraq, he said. We sat down across the table in Iraq from individuals who had our blood on their hands. Its whats done in just about any insurgency as you get to the end stages of it.
Top US officials have said repeatedly that attempts to negotiate a deal with militant leaders will likely only succeed once the Taliban sense they have lost the upper hand on the battlefield.
But the commanders remarks marked a growing willingness by Washington to support a negotiated settlement, provided the militants promise to break links with Al Qaeda and meet other conditions.Agencies