2011 marked the10 years of U.S. military operation in Afghanistan aimed at defeating the Taliban, and find al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden. According to various estimates, the operation claimed at least from 15 to 17 thous. peaceful civilians.

After ten years these causalities seem to have been vain. U.S. conducts negotiations with members of Taliban movement focusing on “measures to boost mutual trust and end the war in Afghanistan,” The New York Times writes.

Moreover, media reports encompass passages stipulating the Taliban’s intention to take control of Afghanistan after withdrawal of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

“Many Afghans are already getting ready for the inevitable comeback of the Taliban,” the document, based on cross-examination of Taliban hostages and al-Qaeda members, reads.

The talks between Americans and Taliban terrorists are vague. However, it’s not a secret that the U.S. resolved to halt military mission to Afghanistan in 2013.

“The United States would move out of combat role by mid to late 2013, which was the first time that the United States had put a date on stepping back from its central role in the war,” U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said.

Moreover, Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in turn, voiced hope for Afghanistan’s security forces to control the situation in mid 2013, noting NATO’s intention to end its military mission to Afghanistan not earlier than 2014.

Hence, 10 years of war, the large amount of money spent, innumerable casualties prove futile.