Critic - "We Can't Defeat the Taliban"

A critic of the war and author of a recent book on the conflict, Jack Fairweather, has penned an opinion piece stating that we have ignored the Pushtun tribes in the east and south to our detriment. He states that the Taliban support within the tribes is well-entrenched and is not going to go away. And neither are the Taliban. He believes that the United States needs to learn to live with the tribes to prepare Afghanistan for long-term stability. Read more in "Stop trying to destroy the Taliban", New York Daily News, November 30, 2014.