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Taliban prepared to accept Afghanistan ceasefire and political deal, say experts

Our friends at The Guardian posted this article yesterday about the Taliban considering a cease-fire deal. 

If there’s a group within the Taliban that’s suing for peace you can bet that there’s a recalcitrant faction that wants to continue the fight. Could you blame them, really? The International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) are pulling out in 2014, Haqqani and Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) are not popularly supported outside of their operations area. Various reports are saying that ISAF is losing ground in the training mission.

To be sure Afghanistan is a complicated set of problems. The Soviets discovered that in the 1980s, just as we’re realizing now. The issue is that over the past 40 years the only real stable government that the Afgans had was the Taliban. You can bet that the Taliban will rush to fill the vaccuum left after the ISAF withdrawl. I mean, hell, they already have their shadow government established that in many ways is allegedly doing a better job of governing in the rural areas than the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA).

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