It still feels weird to think of Afghanistan as subject to a (tentative, initial, seemingly unrequited) peace process. But in the spirit of the prior post, check out Caroline Wadhams’ warnings about the Karzai outreach plan. I’m a little unclear what her ideas are for bolstering the process — the international community pressing Karzai to… decentralize power? — and her criticisms lack a sense of various insurgent groups’ political calculations for their interest in negotiating. But as a diagnosis of the process in its current state, she’s insightful.