Peter Tomsen (former chargé d’affaires of the US to the Northern Alliance) has proclaimed a possible exit strategy from Afghanistan based on an Austrian State Treaty Model from 1955. in: Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol. 25, Winter 2001

The same guy had a shot at the predictioner’s game concerning the Taliban way back in 2000, subtitling in his Foreign Affairs piece “Ahmed Rashid has it wrong. The Taliban’s days are, mercifully, numbered.“