Some U.S. Officials Stating the Obvious: Pakistani ISI Aiding Taliban

This article on the NYT website just adds to the volumes of publicly available information about the ties between Islamic radicals in Afghanistan and Pakistan and the Pakistani military intelligence service, ISI.

It’s really quite incredible that President Barack Obama believes that the Taliban or any other tribal, fundamentalist Islamist can be negotiated with in good faith in this part of the world.  These people have been playing one end against the other since the 1980s.  The United States is going to be punkd if we do anything other than meet barbarism with force in this region.