Cooperation with Taliban can help Nato

Taliban fighters have publicly stoned an unmarried couple to death in the province of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan. The news is an indirect argument in favour of the proposal of supreme Taliban commander Mullah Omar to work together with Nato in the form of a technical committee, the left-liberal daily La Repubblica finds: "This form of technical committee could open up a useful channel of communication for the West in its attempt to impose rules on a war without rules and to better understand the identity of the enemy. ... The Taliban's supreme council seems for its part no longer able to provide its guerrillas with consistent and politically wise fighting strategies which have the approval of the people. If this is true, the probability of a Taliban victory is much lower than ... predicted by the fickle journalists who in recent weeks have claimed that Nato's defeat was inevitable."

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