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Gilles Dorronsoro, a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is the author of Revolution Unending: Afghanistan 1979 to the Present.
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The Case for Negotiations
Dealing with the Taliban is unsavory--but this war cannot be won.
Gilles Dorronsoro