Karzai said the government and an independent national commission have been trying to bring back those Taliban supporters who are not part of al-Qaida and were "forced or found in a position to leave Afghanistan or to pick up guns."
I think I can guarantee that those who believe that talking is good will assume that this offer for talks means we are losing in Afghanistan. Don't believe it. This is essentially a government offer to accept the Taliban surrender after two years of Taliban offensives carried out by hired guns recruited in Pakistan that were crushed inside Afghanistan. The government figures that two straight slaughters of the Taliban will be seen by the Taliban as more than a coincident. And indeed, the Taliban do know they've lost.
We are winning in Afghanistan, too.
