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andy-hughes
/// We must must MUST get a dialogue going with the Taliban to find a way out of this horrible mess -///
Very simple to say sitting in front of a computer, but don't you think this as been tried, only for the Taliban to back out of talks.
They only know one kind of dialogue and that is extreme violence, so we now have no alternative but to use violence against them.
The other alternative is to withdraw, which incidentally I have supported from almost the beginning, in fact we shouldn't have been there in the first place. (and I have my own personal reasons for taking this stance).
But then if we did withdraw and there was an almighty civil war, with a loss of thousands upon thousands of innocent women and children (and of course men, they seem never to get mentioned).
What then? this site would be top heavy with hand-wringing liberals, blaming only the West for all the ills of the World.
So we are wrong to stay, and also wrong to withdraw.