that may now end in bringing them back to the government. joining us to talk about all this is cnn s fareed zakaria, host of gps. this whole idea of bringing the taliban into the government, is this just the best exit strategy for us? i don t think we should think of it that way and it isn t really. there s a couple of very good studies of civil wars. most civil wars end through negotiations. it s very rare that the north wins over the south like it did in the american civil war. most of the time you have some messy political outcome with the negotiation. and particularly with the taliban. this is a little bit different from people s imagination, these are not arab who is sort of entered the country. the taliban represents 50% of afghanistan. in other words these guy right side here to stay. the timing of this seems to be such that we are negotiating from complete weakness, we have
today. this whole idea of bringing the taliban into the government, is this just a way to get out? is this the best exit strategy for us? i don t think we should think of it that way. there are a couple very good studies of civil wars. most civil wars end through negotiations. it s very rare to have the nor triumphing over the south quite as it did in the american civil war. most of the time you have some messy political outcome with the negotiation, and particularly with the taliban. this is a little different than people s imagination. these are not arabs that entered the country. these guys are here to stay. parker-spitzer on cnn. it s 8:00 eastern every night on cnn. there are negotiations to get the taliban to the peace
that may now end in bringing them back to the government. joining us to talk about all this is cnn s fareed zakaria, host of gps. this whole idea of bringing the taliban into the government, is this just the best exit strategy for us? i don t think we should think of it that way and it isn t really. there s a couple of very good studies of civil wars. most civil wars end through negotiations. it s very rare that the north wins over the south like it did in the american civil war. most of the time you have some messy political outcome with the negotiation. and particularly with the taliban. this is a little bit different from people s imagination, these are not arabs who is sort of entered the country. the taliban represents 50% of afghanistan.
well, nine years later, there we are. that s right. today is the ninth anniversary of the afghan invasion and we are still there. fighting the same islamic forces we initially overthrew. so back to these talks here, is this the way out? that is really the one question we all want answered. and kathleen parker posed it last night in parker spitzer. this whole idea of bringing the taliban into the government, is this just a way for us to get out? is this the best exit strategy for us? i don t think we should think of it that way. most civil wars end through negotiations. it s very rare to have the north triumphing over the south quite as it did in the american civil war. the timing of this seems to me to be such that we are negotiating from complete weakness. we have noe not shown any military success. we have announced a departure date and the taliban knows that politically, domestically, the american public has lost all confidence in this war.
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