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Originally Posted by nik-
Well yeah I'm sure there are people that predict almost every scenario. It's not like the Bush administration couldn't fathom that this was a possibility even back then, but you have to proceed based on the current situation and the fact that the Taliban was just not group that deserved to have peace negotiations. A lot of the early hand wringing was based on the "graveyard of empires" stuff though. History isn't guaranteed to repeat.
There are policy decisions that are slam dunk wrong right from the start, but I really don't think this was one of them.
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What does "deserve" have to do with it? It's not like the U.S. has a history of choosing principle over pragmatism when it comes to doing business with brutally oppressive regimes.