""PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, the United States
has been very clear that any peace process, any reconciliation process must be
Afghan led. It is not for the United States to determine what
the terms of this peace will be. But what we have also been
very clear about is that, from our perspective, it is not possible to reconcile
without the Taliban renouncing terrorism, without them
recognizing the Afghan constitution and
recognizing that if there are changes that they want to make to
how the Afghan government operates, then there is a orderly constitutional
process to do that and that you can't resort to violence."" (thanks Amir)