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New Afghan Peace Plan Would Cede Southeast to Taliban
• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason DitzThe hope is to limit US authority over the ongoing reconciliation process while trying to bring Pakistan onto the same side as the Karzai government in settling the ongoing war, something which would’ve been much easier had Karzai not continues to blame Pakistan for so many of his problems.
How stable this settlement would be is also a concern, as setting up a formal autonomous region for the Taliban would seemingly set the stage for the same sort of territorial conflicts Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan are constantly facing.