“Outside observers are looking in the wrong place: They ought to focus on the backroom deals the United States is preparing to make with some notorious warlords, as these will determine the long-term effectiveness of President Obama’s strategy,” writes Ploughshares Funded Crisis Group [2] staff Nick Grono [3] and Candace Rondeaux [4] of the war in Afghanistan. Crono and Rondeaux go on to outline the biography of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a brutal Afghan insurgent, the current relationship of the Obama administration and Hekmatyar, and a more effective strategy for the war in Afghanistan, in a recent Boston Globe editorial.
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[1] https://www.ploughshares.org/file/1458
[2] http://www.crisisgroup.org/
[3] http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=1302&l=1
[4] http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=6261
[5] http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=6475&l=1