With reports in the wider media about world leaders offering to pay the Taleban and other opposing groups in Afghanistan to side with the Karzai government, I wonder if those running the war there have finally realised that they cannot overcome these groups by force? If you read the history of the area, you'll understand that everyone, from the likes of Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan through to the Imperial British and the former Soviet Union have tried and failed to subdue the Afghanis.
My concerns are what happens if the Islamists whom we are supposed to be fighting and bringing to justice offer the Taleban more cash for their loyalty than the West is prepared to offer? Are we going to see a bidding war, and how long with such loyalty remain?
...Or perhaps this is merely a way for the US and its allies to extract itself from the place and save face in a publicly palatable manner?
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