U. S. HAS LOST THE AFGHANISTAN WAR

"... the United States has lost the ten-year Afghan conflict, its longest war. Afghanistan remains the “graveyard of empires.” The US has failed to install an obedient regime in Kabul that controls Afghanistan. It has made foes of the Pashtun majority, and, in pursuing this war, gravely undermined Pakistan... America, for all its B-1 heavy bombers, strike fighters, missiles, helicopter gunships and drones, armor, super electronics, spies in the sky and all the other high tech weapons of modern war has failed to defeat some 30,000 tribal fighters with nothing more than small arms and legendary valor. The US has lost the all important military initiative in Afghanistan. It may linger there, but it cannot win."
http://www.ericmargolis.com/political_commentaries/a-real-pullout-or-a-shell-game.aspx

KARZAI CONFIRMS PEACE TALKS

"President Hamid Karzai acknowledged that the U.S. and Afghan governments have held talks with Taliban emissaries in a bid to end the nation's nearly 10-year war..."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-06-18-karzai-taliban-us_n.htm

KARZAI SAYS U.S. USING AFGHANISTAN

"... Much of Mr. Karzai’s speech, an address to the Afghanistan Youth International Conference, was devoted to broad criticisms of coalition forces in Afghanistan, saying their motives were suspect and their weapons were polluting his country... “They’re here for their own purposes, for their own goals, and they’re using our soil for that,” Mr. Karzai said..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/world/asia/19afghanistan.html?_r=2

U.S. IN SECRET TALKS ON STAYING FOR DECADES

"American and Afghan officials are locked in increasingly acrimonious secret talks about a long-term security agreement which is likely to see US troops, spies and air power based in the troubled country for decades..."
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/13-8