I thought I just add this here since this is turned into a reoccuring Nightmare..
Richard as you say..
And so it goes...
U.S.-Taliban Peace Deal Unlikely in Afghanistan
By Matt Vasilogambros
October 2, 2012 | 6:46 a.m.
NATO chief says coalition troops could come home earlier than 2014 because of insider attacks.
The U.S. is abandoning hope for a peace agreement with the Taliban, The New York Times reports, as NATO’s top leader told a British newspaper that the coalition is considering a quicker withdrawal of Western troops.
Once a key part of the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, commanders on the ground and officials in Washington doubt the U.S. and the Taliban can have substantive peace talks, The Times reported.
Instead, the U.S. will work to secure a peace between the Taliban and the Afghan government, a deal that will eventually require approval from Pakistan. Substantive talks with the Taliban, officials told The Times, will most likely only happen after the withdrawal of American forces in 2014.
“It’s a very resilient enemy, and I’m not going to tell you it’s not,” a senior coalition officer told The Times. “It will be a constant battle, and it will be for years.”
Meanwhile, as so-called "green-on-blue" attacks, in which Afghan security forces have turned their weapons on their NATO counterparts, have increased this year, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday that Western troops may withdrawal from Afghanistan sooner the 2014 deadline, the U.K.’s Guardian reports.
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From now until the end of 2014 you may see adaptation of our presence,” he told the Guardian. “Our troops can redeploy, take on other tasks, or even withdraw, or we can reduce the number of foreign troops. From now until the end of 2014 we will see announcements of re-deployments, withdrawals or drawdown … If the security situation allows, I would not exclude the possibility that in certain areas you could accelerate the process.
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This really looking bad for the USA and NATO IMNSHO. People will start saying or point to the issues of this being another vietnam or something in those shoes.
IMO.. FWIW the underlining problems with Afghanistan has been and will always be Pakistan. I'm not just talking about the ISI, Pakistan and it's Military and their so called leaders. Pakistan National direction(s) and their fears with Afghanistan and India partnership. Pakistan in on the brink of sectarian war and we will be there just as fast as we are heading to Iran.