(Washington Post) David Ignatius - In a rapidly changing Islamic world, the Obama administration is weighing how best to talk with adversaries such as the Taliban and, perhaps, Hizbullah. One model for the administration, as it thinks about engagement of enemies, is the British process of dialogue during the 1990s with Sinn Fein, the legal political wing of the terrorist Irish Republican Army. A new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Hizbullah that is nearing completion assesses Hizbullah in a broad context, as a political and social force in Lebanon in addition to the militia officially designated by the U.S. as a "foreign terrorist organization."
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