


Hamid Karzai
Karzai-Taliban deal might be best for Afghanistan

The Obama administration is shocked shocked! that Afghan President Hamid Karzai was secretly negotiating with the Taliban. The previously undisclosed negotiations certainly explain what White House adviser John Podesta recently called Karzai's "erratic" behavior in refusing to negotiate an agreement to keep U.S. forces in the country after 2014. But what, exactly, is so terrible about Karzai negotiating separately with the same Taliban that the United States has repeatedly tried and failed to engage? In fact, although the Taliban are very likely playing the outgoing president, he is exactly the person who should be trying to negotiate an entrance to Afghan politics for the...