Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Backtracking

The United Nations special representative in Afghanistan is calling for the removal of several top Taliban officials from the international black list. This is in hopes of opening up dialogue with the terrorist organization, and is supported by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

After all of the work that the international community has done over the past decade to counter terrorist groups, like the Taliban, what sense does it make to begin taking names off of watch lists? How necessary at this point is dialogue with these groups? Does this just seem like two giant steps backwards in the fight against terrorism?

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