British strategy change in Afghanistan

Britain announced a change in strategy which involves talking to the Taliban in Afghanistan to negotiate. Moderate Taliban would be engaged.

The thing to know about this is that the concepts of "moderate" and "extremist/radical" have been used historically to mean moderate=agrees with US/Britain and extremist/radical=confronts US/Britain.
So all the British are saying now, and the US has said in the past, is that they would like to negotiate with those Taliban who won't challenge the US/Britain and who will decide to ally themselves with the US/Britain.

Also, the Taliban are as bad as the warlords currently in government, so the fact that Britain and US want to cooperate with them is the wrong policy. All it does show is that the US/Britain are willing to talk to rapists and murderers, as long as those are allies, but they won't support progressive groups and individuals, like, say, RAWA and Malalai Joya. It just show that NATO supports murderers and fundamentalists.