Return of the Taliban - Frontline October 2006

If you have not seen the 2006 FRONTLINE episode "Return of the Taliban", it is certainly worth your time. Also, if you can take a look at "The War Briefing" and "Obama's War."

There is some good info in there. It is a bit disheartening to see how little has changed for the better in the past three years. Here is one more 2006 flashback:


Accept defeat by Taliban, Pakistan tells Nato
By Ahmed Rashid in Islamabad
Published: 12:03AM GMT 29 Nov 2006

Senior Pakistani officials are urging Nato countries to accept the Taliban and work towards a new coalition government in Kabul that might exclude the Afghan president Hamid Karzai.

Will we hit this point again this year or next year?

Mr Karzai has long insisted that the Taliban sanctuaries and logistics bases are in Pakistan while Gen James Jones, the Supreme Commander of Nato, told the US Congress in September that the Taliban leadership is headquartered in the Pakistani city of Quetta.

Lt Gen Ali Mohammed Jan Orakzai, governor of the volatile North West Frontier Province has stated publicly that the US, Britain and Nato have already failed in Afghanistan. "Either it is a lack of understanding or it is a lack of courage to admit their failures," he said recently.