Now Obama wants to talk to the Taliban?

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By Michael Rubin/
Whenever the U.S. military undertakes any drill, let alone an engagement, there are hundreds if not thousands of man-hours spent after the fact going over the lessons learned in mind-numbing detail. Never, however, has the State Department conducted a lessons-learned session to investigate why their diplomacy has failed, hence the prevalence of the myth in diplomatic circles that it never hurts to talk. More >>