[SunkenCiv]

Ghulam Farooq Wardak, Afghanistan's education minister and a member of a peace council in charge of reconciliation efforts with the Taliban, sees a post-bin Laden opportunity for accord. (Official Presidential Palace Photo)

[Buckeye McFrog]

we would indeed be fortunate if this entire situation turned out to be like a buffalo hunt

[NordP]

Headline = Riiiiiiiiiight...

[supremedoctrine]

“LOST ALL HOPE” is a little too convenient a peg to hang
Obama’s hat on.....this could be played ALL to Obama, the Osama-killer’s , favor. We don’t know what it means, if anything, but like everything else, it’s ‘in flux’, and that’s why its pontential as a ‘good Obama thing’ can be played to the hilt right up to the election of 2012.

[bodfish]

Post bin laden has been since 2002, and the taliban havent heard anything from him in those 9 years either, but hey, its all about perception and who controls the propaganda spewing machine being a means to an end with the truth, as always, the first casualty!

[gandalftb]

Rabbani is a has-been now offering up "stories" to the gullible media about the demise of AQ and the Taliban.

Any traction at all would come from Hekmatyr and the Haqqanis and Omar. There have been quite a number of Saudi's and other arabs that, knowing they are in UBL's address book, that we're reading, have headed home after finding a new religion: saving their own hides.

Our very Special Ops forces put out the party lights.

Any hope that AQ has lost is due to the loss of funds that UBL and his network used to hand out. That is what UBL had devolved into.

[Brad from Tennessee]

The North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong showed a willingness for peace until most U.S. forces had left RVN. NATO is probably ready to embrace an illusion if it allows them to withdraw unhindered.

[Jim Noble]

Bring us the head of Zawahiri and we can talk.