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CBS and NBC both chose Afghanistan for their follow-up to the White House talks. Jim Maceda filed an In Depth report from Wardak Province for NBC where he told us of "a flurry of secret diplomacy in Saudi Arabia and Dubai" as an ex-Taliban politician, now chief negotiator for the Kabul government, is reaching out to moderate, "not ideologically driven," elements in the Taliban leadership. CBS anchor Katie Couric, with US military brass in Kabul, had a diametrically opposite report. She found a "new strategy to eradicate the Taliban." She called its insurgency "increasingly brazen" and aired speculation by Gen David McKiernan that the recent deaths of up to 100 civilians in Farah Province at the site of a US airstrike may have been "purposely caused" by Taliban guerrillas and later staged in a propaganda stunt. "The United States is at a distinct disadvantage in the propaganda war with the Taliban," McKiernan told Couric.
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