Hey, you know what? We should take a good look at that Pakistan - Taliban Peace treaty ...

Yeh ... maybe the peace treaty signed last week between the Pakistan Government and the Taliban militants operating in Pakistan isn't as bad as it looks. For one thing, it might be a model for a similar pact in Afghanistan ... reducing American and British deaths there, among other things.

The basic idea of the treaty in Pakistan is that the Taliban and al-Qaida operatives (including Osama bin Forgotten, unfortunately) is that if the Taliban/al-Qaida militants will live out peaceful lives in the upper corner of the country, the Pakis will leave them alone ... and keep American (and other foreign) forces out of Pakistan.

Why couldn't the Afghan Government make a similar deal with the same two groups of radical fur-balls and then we could get our forces (and the Brits too) out of harm's way in Afghanistan? Osama bin Forgotten isn't in Afghanistan anyway, so what difference would it make other than to put a halt to yet another civil war within which we are engaged?

We should remember that the independent (spelled with a capital "I") Pashtun tribes that are located on both sides of the Afghan-Paki border have never been brought under control by any government -- including the original British colonial rulers. Why not call it a day and redeploy to elsewhere in the Middle East where we aren't losing young American troops on a daily basis?

If Musharraf can make it work in Pakistan, surely Karzai could make it work in Afghanistan ... well ... maybe anyway ...

Just a thought ...