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As guests dined on tea-smoked quail at a party in Washington last month, Lieutenant General Douglas Lute, President Barack Obama’s coordinator for Afghanistan policy, stood to offer praise for a new report.
“All of us, and certainly those of us in the administration, should take this glossy little book home and look at it carefully,” Lute said of the study advocating talks with the Taliban published by the Century Foundation, the New York-based policy institute hosting the event.