Comments on: Talking with the Taliban: a timeline https://www.smartwar.org/blog/2012/01/talking-with-the-taliban-a-timeline/ A blog about conflict simulation & wargaming Mon, 22 Jul 2013 05:37:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Sadia https://www.smartwar.org/blog/2012/01/talking-with-the-taliban-a-timeline/#comment-22 Mon, 22 Jul 2013 05:37:13 +0000 http://www.smartwar.org/?p=499#comment-22 This has been a great help! Thanks so much! (:

]]> By: Managing Expectations in Taliban Talks « Commentary Magazine https://www.smartwar.org/blog/2012/01/talking-with-the-taliban-a-timeline/#comment-21 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:15:55 +0000 http://www.smartwar.org/?p=499#comment-21 […] talks starting and even preliminary contacts between the U.S. and the Taliban. (For a list, click here.) Most recently, in 2011, the Taliban actually dispatched negotiators to Qatar and talks were on […]

]]> By: Robert Hossal https://www.smartwar.org/blog/2012/01/talking-with-the-taliban-a-timeline/#comment-20 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:08:44 +0000 http://www.smartwar.org/?p=499#comment-20 In reply to John Kantor.

John,

I’m not sure what your hyperbolic comment is meant to be in reply to. If you read past the second word of this post, you’ll see that it is a collection of links to articles and op-eds presenting a timeline of the history of US-Taliban peace talks.

You’re welcome to find op-eds advocating such talks (some of which are linked on this page) and go call their authors terrorists.

]]> By: John Kantor https://www.smartwar.org/blog/2012/01/talking-with-the-taliban-a-timeline/#comment-19 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:50:49 +0000 http://www.smartwar.org/?p=499#comment-19 “Hopes”? What hope for the girls whose faces they burned off with acid? And will do again when we leave?

Anyone who talks to terrorists is a terrorist – and needs to be treated like one. And to see his family treated like they treat their victims.

Don’t talk the talk if you’re the same kind of sick hypocrite who isn’t willing to walk the walk.

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