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...country by ourselves." Aid workers from Kabul told TIME that a sense of disillusionment is growing there too with the way the U.S. has handled the war. "People are stunned to see nothing is happening politically," says one, "as the impact on the people is getting worse." Even in northern Afghanistan, anti-Taliban country, locals are incensed at news of civilians in Kabul and Jalalabad killed in air strikes. "If the Americans care about us," asked Faisal Benawar, an almond vendor in the town of Yang e-Qale, "why are they killing innocent Afghans...
TIME.com Read dispatches from Northern Alliance territory at time.com/quinn-judge
...line. So when Secretary of State Colin Powell cautiously endorsed Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's view that such members of the repressive Afghan regime might have a role to play in a future coalition government, many people shared the same reaction as the partisans in the conflict. Both the Northern Alliance's Foreign Minister and the Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan declared defiantly, "There's no such thing...
...murky terrain of Afghan politics, however, nothing is ever that cut-and-dried. While the notion of any future governing role for Taliban leaders--even moderate ones--is bitterly opposed by the Northern Alliance and its backers Iran, India and Russia, a touch of Taliban may be an ingredient necessary to satisfy many other interested parties...
...come down to a practical matter. It would be helpful to the jittery regime in Pakistan, which insists on empowering some of its ethnic Pashtun brothers from the southern part of its ravaged neighbor, who make up most of the Taliban, as a counterweight to its foes in the Northern Alliance. A vestigial Taliban may also give any potentially disaffected rank-and-file members some alternative to going down with the ship. As Secretary Powell put it last week, "You can't ethnically cleanse Afghanistan after this is over. You can't export them." All you can hope for, perhaps...