20-06-2013, 09:05 AM
Danny Jarman Wrote:Meanwhile the Taliban are opening an office in Doha, a move which the US has praised. :pinkelephant:
Interesting. The BBC has a story on this HERE.
This move seems to suggest the prospect that the US might have reached an agreement with the Taliban for them to rule Afghanistan post US withdrawal, and the suspension of the talks with Karzai is because he now knows that? Someone needs to watch to see if any changes occur in heroin production post withdrawal, and if the oil and gas boys move in to set up that pipeline?
The problem this scenario presents is how the US military and bereaved families of soldiers killed in action are going to respond knowing that their war enemies become bosom buddies even before the killing stops - because not even a fig leaf period of time is being allowed to honour the dead.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14