UN Wants to Talk to Taliban?

A UN envoy in Afghanistan thinks it's time to talk to the Taliban.

The head of the U.N. mission in Afghanistan said Thursday that it's "high time" a political solution is found with the Taliban to resolve the more than 8-year-old conflict.
"It's time to talk," Kai Eide said.
In his last news conference as the U.N. representative, Eide said he hoped a spring peace jirga — or conference — that Afghan President Hamid Karzai is organizing would result in a national consensus for peace that the entire nation could rally around.
In a wide-ranging news conference at the heavily secured U.N. compound, Eide said he has always been behind a policy of engagement, but has no allusions about the complexities of negotiating peace with Taliban leaders.

He doesn't draw any distinction between "big T" and "little t" Taliban, like the US has tried to.

By: Brant