the difficulty of this road to a potential peace talks of course could have a number of setbacks and there has been some already, including the killing of the head of the peace council a few months ago. and of course the clock is ticking now because in 2014 most western forces will have left this country. back to you, greg. jon: david piper reporting live from kabul. thank you. jamie: jon, thanks. let's get some more on this by bringing in fox news national security analyst, the host of defcon-3 on foxnews.com live, kt mcfarland. great to see you. thanks for coming in on this. here's what i don't get. seems to me, just my heart talking here, it is a stall tactic of the taliban to wait for us to withdraw. am i right? >> here's the thing, the afghan government thought they would be there forever so why would they want to negotiate with the taliban? they have the american guarantors sticking around.