Should the U.S. negotiate with the Taliban?

The United States has a longstanding policy of not negotiating with terrorists. And the Afghan Taliban isn’t on the State Department’s list of “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” (although, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, its Pakistani counterpart, is) so it isn’t technically considered a terrorist organization. But after fighting  it in Afghanistan in the “War on Terror” for almost 17 years, you’d be forgiven for mistaking it for one.
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