I can tell you that negotiations are going on. They're not official negotiations. Karzai is meeting with moderate Taliban. Even the UN are holding meetings with low-level Taliban. But this is a trickle of moderate, low-level Taliban who are basically saying, “Help us find a way out of this. We don't want to fight anymore.” That trickle has to turn into a flood before anything can really happen.
We cannot tell or instruct President Karzai to negotiate with the Taliban. The people in Afghanistan go ballistic when you talk about negotiating with the Taliban. They don't want anything to do with the Taliban.
But I think you're right, and I think the international community has come to understand that we have to negotiate a way out of this. It's just a matter of how soon and how well you can bring the players together.