'We should have talked to Taliban' says top British officer in Afghanistan

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. What "hindsight"?

>>>Acknowledging that it was "easy to be wise with the benefit of hindsight", Carter added: "The problems that we have been encountering over the period since then are essentially political problems, and political problems are only ever solved by people talking to each other." >>>>>>

Everyone knew this at the time. IF *I* knew... everyone knew it; or SHOULD have known it.

Anyone who can read wikipedia ... reading level @ grade 9 I read somewhere ( on wiki, probably; tee hee) ..... COULD have known it if they had bothered to learn the rudiments of Afghan history.

A saner course was obvious at the time; but adopting same... one suspects... would have meant foregoing the chance for a lot of people to become millionaires and billionaires.

Peace is too expensive for some people.