So we’re negotiating with one of al-Qaeda’s top allies… and there isn’t anyone in the Obama regime who has a problem with this?

Via Washington Examiner:

White House officials announced that the United States and Afghanistan governments will use the negotiating table as the place to ask the Taliban to cut ties with al Qaeda, a process that can begin now that the Taliban has denounced most other Afghanistan-based terrorist efforts.

“[W]e’ve long had a demand on the Taliban that they make a statement that distances themselves from the movement from international terrorism, but made clear that we didn’t expect immediately for them to break ties with al Qaeda, because that’s an outcome of the negotiation process,” a senior administration official told reporters during a background briefing on Afghanistan. “So the statement that we expect today is this first step in distancing them, distancing the movement from international terrorism. But it’s not as far as [we] will demand them to go at the end of the process.”