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March 27, 2012

The West Has Lost in Afghanistan

Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

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Five years ago, the Americans were refusing to speak to the Taliban. Now the Taliban are refusing to speak to the Americans. That is a measure of how the balance of power has shifted in Afghanistan.

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