Five years ago the Americans were refusing to speak to the Taliban. Now the Taliban are refusing to speak to the Americans. That is a measure of how the balance of power has shifted in Afghanistan. The western intervention there has failed. As Nato prepares to withdraw from the country in 2014, it is only the scale of the defeat that remains to be determined.
五年前美国拒绝与塔利班(Taliban)对话，现在是塔利班拒绝与美国对话。这就显示出阿富汗的力量平衡已经出现了怎样的转变。西方在阿富汗的干预已经失败。由于北约(Nato)准备在2014年撤离阿富汗，悬而未决的就只有失败的规模而已。
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