The lead negotiator as he cautioned because their stark message to the insurgents to John Nickelson has made clear, reconcile or die. Ruben said this is not the way to start a dialogue with people whos entire culture is organized around personal and collective honor, which by the way is a much bigger factor in this war than socalled extremist islam. He added its obvious that this conflict has no purely military solution, even maintaining the current Military Involvement requires better political ties with afghanistans neighbors. Look at a map, ruben said, afghanistan is land locked and America Needs supply roots. The three countries that could help with access are pakistan, russia and iran. And we have bad relations with all three. Rubens chief advice is to work hard at diplomacy and recognize other countries have an interest in afghanistan and engage them, a successful outcome is entirely
dependent upon involvement from india, pakistan and russia and iran. So washington cannot keep fa
the lead negotiator as he cautioned because their stark message to the insurgents to john nickelson has made clear, reconcile or die. ruben said this is not the way to start a dialogue with people who s entire culture is organized around personal and collective honor, which by the way is a much bigger factor in this war than so-called extremist islam. he added it s obvious that this conflict has no purely military solution, even maintaining the current military involvement requires better political ties with afghanistan s neighbors. look at a map, ruben said, afghanistan is land locked and america needs supply roots. the three countries that could help with access are pakistan, russia and iran. and we have bad relations with all three. ruben s chief advice is to work hard at diplomacy and recognize other countries have an interest in afghanistan and engage them, a successful outcome is entirely