Should the US negotiate with the Taliban in Afghanistan? (real possibility)

IntenseSaint said
The Nazis? No. Neville Chamberlain capitulated to Hitler then was shown how naive he was when Hitler did the exact opposite of what he agreed to in the Munich Agreement.

History does and will repeat itself if we are naive again.
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Thing is, history has contradicting lessons regarding this situation.

Appeasement or long, drawn-out bloodletting USSR style?

The mideast is a tar baby we're better off just leaving the hell alone.