On the brink of defeat

This is the beginning of the end of the complete defeat of the Western ISAF coalition. There is little reason for the tribes of Afghanistan to enter talks anymore when they are on the brink of complete victory.

Humiliation for the West is near, one of the largest Western coalitions ever sent to war is coming back home broken and defeated. Billions of dollars spent against a 'primitive' opposition that showed the world that the US can be defeated despite overwhelming superiority in conventional arms. 

Not long ago the official policy was ''we will not talk with terrorists'' - today is the day that ISAF handed the military-responsibility to the Afghan government. Now the US, suddenly, feels a need to ''talk'' with the ''enemy'' that would not buckle. Despite, being the party in the conflict that initially refused to enter talks.