Best course for dealing with the Taliban: Win, then negotiate - washingtonpost

The Wikileaks document download -- illustrating Afghan corruption, Pakistani duplicity and Taliban toughness -- revealed little that is new. But it will intensify a popular kind of desperation. -- In Afghanistan, 'realism' as defeatism : Will women pay for the dealmakers' desperation?
واشنگتن پوست: اول باید جنگ را برنده شد و سپس مذاکره کرد
'بسیاری از افغانها خواهان بازگشت طالبان نیستند'

Afghan intelligence contracts apply some limits
US braces for blowback over Afghan war disclosures
Wikihype : The release of thousands of classified field reports...