USA in secret talks with the Taliban

Hahahahhahah .... I knew this would happen. "Up yours"  to all those Canadian conservatives and others, you know who you are, who thought our continued presence in Afghanistan would be bringing democracy and a better future to the people of Afghanistan. If Afghans want their freedom from cavemen and cavemen mentality....they have to fight for it themselves, not depend on NATO and the USA being there to baby-sit them and their corrupt govt.

Once  NATO and USA are out of Afghanistan, back it will roll to the cavemen era in the blinking of an eye.

.....Confidentiality has its place in statecraft, and if Afghanistan’s war is to be resolved it will require some quiet dealmaking, but there is something unsavory about secret talks as a mechanism for drawing the Taliban into politics. Afghanistan has suffered heavily enough from the covert designs of outside powers. Negotiations with the Taliban must eventually be transparent, so that the Afghans themselves can examine them. And more than a deal with Taliban leaders will be called for. American efforts to calm the violence will succeed only if they are part of a broader strategy in Afghanistan and South Asia, one that gives priority to economic development, energy links, water, and regional peacemaking, including in the conflict between India and Pakistan.....