VILLAGE MEETING - Panjshayr Provincial Reconstruction Team members meet with the Shast elder and villagers in the Rokha district, Afghanistan, Dec. 27, 2010. Team members visited the village to discuss their concerns. International Security Assistance Force photo by French Army Staff Sgt. Romain BeaulinetteBringing Afghanis Over To The Coalition Side, One Tribe At A Time -- Max Boot, Commentary Magazine
There has been much loose talk about the possibility of reaching a high-level peace deal with the Taliban. No such effort is likely to succeed, at least not in the short run, because the Taliban do not yet feel defeated. In any case, high-level Taliban leaders, safely ensconced in Pakistan, have no incentive to give up a fight in which their foot soldiers are suffering while they enjoy shelter and subsidies from the Pakistani regime. But lower-level deals to bring tribes over to the side of the coalition are likely to prove more fruitful — just as they did in Iraq.
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