President Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed their join “support” for peace talks with the Taliban during a 90-minute conference call that the Taliban were not directly involved in.
The vague support for the idea of peace talks didn’t include any concrete plans to actually go to the Taliban’s newly opened office in Qatar, which Karzai is still fuming about over their decision to fly a pre-2001 flag, and Karzai’s government still seems to be ruling out sending representatives to Qatar at all.
The Taliban have also expressed hope that the talks will eventually happen, but like the US-Afghan call today those expressions of hope didn’t directly involve talking with the other parties, and the whole matter seems stalled.
The Taliban have offered a prisoner exchange in the hopes that it might revive the peace process, but the US has yet to respond to the offer, and yesterday insisted that they are “waiting” for the Taliban to decide if they want talks or not.
Two weeks ago Hamid Karzai was against the talks with Taliban.., this week Taliban attacked his palace, the "CIA" headquarter.., blink blink.., and all of the sudden Hamid Karzai dancing the dance.
Now the question is who els USA-NATO going to talk to beside Taliban for the "peace" in Afghanistan.., the Qatari regime..? Hamid Karzai is a hand picked sweet heart by the am-bush regime, Taliban is the chosen ones by the good god Americans, Qatar and Saudis are the most democratic system in this world..,? but the main thing that people need to ask is.., what can USA use these Taliban for.., if and when their demands for a Islamic Afghanistan and potentially Pakistan is meet.., would they be used to be engaged with other planed wars in Middle East, Central Asia.., after all militarizing the entire Middle East and occupying it is part of the plan set by Paul Wolfowitz and Obama administration is making sure of that by planting 400 solders in Egypt, missile defense in turkey, 200 solders in Jordan and whatever comes next.