Five years ago the Americans were refusing to speak to the Taliban. Now the Taliban are refusing to speak to the Americans. That is a measure of how the balance of power has shifted in Afghanistan. The western intervention there has failed. As Nato prepares to withdraw from the country in 2014, it is only the scale of the defeat that remains to be determined.
五年前美國拒絕與塔利班(Taliban)對話，現在是塔利班拒絕與美國對話。這就顯示出阿富汗的力量平衡已經出現了怎樣的轉變。西方在阿富汗的干預已經失敗。由于北約(Nato)準備在2014年撤離阿富汗，懸而未決的就只有失敗的規模而已。
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