The Obama administration has floated a number of trial balloons over the last couple of weeks about the idea of separating the Taliban from al-Qaeda in order to justify a reduction of resources for the counterinsurgency strategy championed for the last two years by Barack Obama himself. The argument goes that the Taliban just want to return to Afghanistan and have political engagement, and that they are different in style and intent than al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. In other words, they want



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