Is The U.S. Preparing To Talk To The Taliban And Hezbollah

Obama Weighs Talking to The Taliban, Hezbollah -- David Ignatius, Washington Post

In a rapidly changing Islamic world, the Obama administration is weighing how best to talk with adversaries such as the Taliban and, perhaps, Hezbollah.

One model for the administration, as it thinks about engagement of enemies, is the British process of dialogue during the 1990s with Sinn Fein, the legal political wing of the terrorist Irish Republican Army. That outreach led to breakthrough peace talks and settlement of a conflict that had been raging for more than a century.

In the case of the Taliban, the administration has repeatedly stated that it is seeking a political settlement of the war in Afghanistan rather than a military one. That formula sometimes seems hollow when more than 100,000 U.S. troops are in combat. But it got more definition last month from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who opened the doors wider for dialogue.

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Update: Report: U.S. considering strategic outreach to Hezbollah -- Haaretz

My Comment: Our allies know where all of this is going .... and more importantly .... so do our enemies. President Obama believes that he is pursuing peace, but (in my opinion) we will only get more war.