Are you going to talk to the Taliban? Chaudhary: That is under consideration, at the right time. Obviously, we want to talk about everyone that is part of the story of the war. They were kind of a big part of the story of the war.
Jackson: The question of sort of timing on that is a relevant one, but we're certainly open in principle as we are talking to all sorts of actors in the story. The Pakistanis? Jackson: Absolutely. Chaudhary: Congress has asked us to look at the Pakistanis.
They've asked us to look at the foreign interlocutors, other governments. We are willing to talk to everyone who is involved in the U.S.
decision-making and the impact of that, and so whoever is involved in that we will have to consider that. Jackson: We would be telling half the story, one hand clapping, if all we did was look at U.S.
government plans in isolation. On a technical level, some of these groups involved are designated terrorist organizations in one fashion or another. Can you nonetheless engage with them? Jackson: Any engagement with groups like the Taliban is complicated.
We see this in the story of the Afghan War, the United States government came up with ways of interacting with challenging groups and audiences. My guess is that something similar is at least in the..
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