Why talks with the Taliban are futile

Obama needs to begin negotiations with the Taliban now because, in late 2009 when he announced the troop surge, he said that the surge would end and withdrawal of U.S. troops would begin in July 2011 and be completed in 2014. If Obama is to maintain that schedule, some credible "peace" must be in place by then or historians will label Afghanistan as "Obama's Vietnam."

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