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Violence and ties to al qaeda and other extremist networks, that president karzai should be able to work to reintegrate those individuals into afghan society. this has to be an afghan-led effort, though. it's not one that's deck at a time -- dictated by the united states or any other outside power. think the peace jurga will allow for a frame work to then move forward. one of the things i emphasized to president karzai, however, is, is that the incentives for the taliban to lay down arms or at least portions of the taliban to lay down arms and make peace with the afghan government in

Efforts at reconciliation need to be from a position of strength. we think that we are in the process of blunting the momentum that the taliban had in afghanistan and beginning to reverse that momentum. i think with each passing day, the position of the afghan government becomes stronger in terms of bowing able to conduct those negotiations. >> is it fair to extrapolate from that if you had a couple more months, that president karzai would be in a much stronger position than he might be in a couple of weeks? >> i think over time he will be in an increasingly strong position. but that doesn't m...