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This was an accident waiting to happen. The deadly skirmish on the Afghan border involving U.S. special forces and Pakistani soldiers, which left 24 Pakistanis dead from a NATO air strike, reflects the contradiction at the heart of U.S. policy regarding Pakistan.

With the Afghanistan drawdown looming, the escalated U.S. military operation targeting the Taliban is out of step with U.S. diplomacy, which is looking for a negotiated solution. 

There you have it. So while U.S. diplomats back Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s decision to talk to the Taliban, the U.S. military is busy killing the people with whom he is supposed to negotiate, as well as angering the neighbor with a justifiable stake in Afghanistan’s future stability.

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