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October 2, 2012

U.S. Abandoning Hopes for Taliban Deal

Rosenberg & Nordland, New York Times

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With the surge of American troops over and the Taliban still a potent threat, American generals and civilian officials acknowledge that they have all but written off what was once one of the cornerstones of their strategy to end the war here: battering the Taliban into a peace deal.

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