No Good Options In Afghanistan

Joe Klein is deflated:

There are no indications that the Taliban are willing to make peace.And there are some indications that Karzai's government would collapse,abandoned by its non-Pashtun members, including most of the army, if hepursued this course. But no other course seems plausible. The U.S.military would like to see the Taliban lay down their arms, but that'snot likely. A deal in which the Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omarrenounces al-Qaeda, accepts a subsidiary Taliban role in...