Remember how we won that war in Afghanistan, against the Taliban? Well, you may have believed that, but the Taliban didn't. So now, American and Pakistani agents are reportedly getting together with the Taliban for a quiet powwow to try and come up with some other story that they will believe, before one of the firefights that American troops are into there turns deadly, and they can't keep it off CNN.

Among the reported American demands is that "any US or allied soldiers held captive must be released." How... intriguing.

This all comes from a source within Pakistani intelligence, though, so it should be taken with a grain of salt. It's possible that they may be as unreliable as the Americans...

(via The Agonist)