Blurred and overshadowed by the events in the Middle East and the Maghreb, the war in Afghanistan continues But going forward, that the major newspapers and TV ignore it or not. As often happens with things that are troubling, the marshes from which we know to go out, the difficulties that appear seamless, the silence is a great panacea even if the problem remains unsolved. Yet, according to the New Yorker , something is happening. I wrote Steve Coll, an American journalist who won the Pulitzer, the glossy pages of the influential weekly in the past was marked by the lucidity of analysis on Afghanistan. Coll argues that the American establishment figures who participated in person, they told of the talks between the Taliban and the Americans in track.
Coll remember that just pointed to the Taliban in direct talks with the enemy number one the way to go and preferred to that sort of Mess set up by President Karzai who has entrusted a council for national reconciliation in one of the worst enemies of the Taliban, the 'Former President Rabbani, and you have entered the body that should initiate peace talks discredited and controversial figures.
While as the New Yorker says there is a small place so even if direct negotiations between guerrillas and U.S. are likely to create problems just to Karzai who is president - more or less entitled to one vote the controversial - and So the only way to have a drive a process that should focus on the Afghans. In short, it is complicated and yet he knows very little. But because Americans prefer the Taliban to Karzai?
The Taliban have never hidden what they think the government of Hamid Karzai: corrupt, as evidenced by the banking scandals involving his family, ethically questionable in the eyes of a religiously motivated guerrillas but, above all, puppet of the occupying armies. The reasoning is flawless: you need to negotiate with a puppet? Moreover, the Taliban know that the United States have greater ability to pressure on Pakistan, whose interference in Afghan affairs, believe it or not, even bother to guerrilla in his turban.
How will end up remains to be seen but there is something in short. Coll gives the turn to Richard Holbrooke, the special envoy of Obama died a few months ago and believed in the primacy of politics, then the negotiations, rather than in arms. And in his article Coll also recalled that in Vietnam, before coming to the Paris agreements of 1973 which laid the foundations for the end of the war, he began to negotiate between Vietnamese and Americans in 1968: five years earlier. Time-consuming and therefore very carefully. But perhaps the news that was really worth it though to emphasize the benefits, if indeed something is happening, you will reap far ahead
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