Steve Coll says Taliban won’t negotiate (New Yorker) [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/stevecoll/2009/12/another-reason-for-2011.html] Walid Phares explains what Taliban think of Obama’s surge (Fox News) [http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/12/08/walid-phares-taliban-afghanistan-obama-al-qaeda/] Everything has already been tried (Foreign Policy in Focus) [http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/6620]
