Whenever a policy position becomes conventional wisdom in Washington, there are usually good reasons to be suspicious of it. Such is certainly the case with the growing bipartisan consensus behind negotiating with the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan. In the last several months, much of official Washington has recently come around to the view that some kind of grand bargain with the Taliban may be necessary to secure the peace. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has even gone as far as to re-label the US approach in Afghanistan as "fight, talk, and build".
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