CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS July 12, 2015 17:04:00
Underlying political problem that almost always needs to be addressed politically. in afghanistan, for example it reflects the reality that some part of the pashtun population which is about 50% of the country believes that its interests are not represented by the current government in kabul. now, this week's negotiations might go nowhere. but one of the lessons that powell notes in the book is that often these talks begin too late because governments believe that one last military push will put the terrorists on the defensive even though he says there is precious little empirical evidence to ...