Ten years on in Afghanistan, U.S. and NATO forces are scheduled to begin a drawdown of forces in July, and a purely military solution seems more elusive than ever. Hamid Karzai has stressed the importance of negotiating with the Taliban, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has embraced the possibility.
What are the prospects for a peace or reconciliation process involving Afghan Taliban leaders? Is there any realistic hope of engaging current or former Taliban in Afghan electoral politics or of a more "moderate" Taliban presence in a future Afghan government? By letting the Taliban come in from the cold, would we endanger such hard-won gains as the increase in schooling for girls and women?
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