It worked in Iraq, so by their logic, it will work in Afgthanistan. I think it is a laughable plan.


Afghanistan - In a rock-strewn valley so remote that US and Afghan forces here call their base "Wilderness," tribal elders met under a dusty tent with Afghan politicians and American officers in a bid to turn recent military gains against insurgents into progress in local governance.

Ringed with layers of military security, the jirga, or tribal meeting, Monday marked the close of Operation Khyber, a joint US-Afghan operation of nearly three weeks that is applying a refined counterinsurgency strategy to three tough districts in southeast Afghanistan's Paktia Province.


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Well, they might want to rethink their plan. A Sunni leader who cooperated with the U.S. was just killed.

The onlky time the Afghan tribes have worked together is when they have a common enemy, right now they do not. So these talks will be just a delayinbg tsactic.