Rendering: "The forgotten war"

The article 'The Forgotten War' was published in the Telegraph on October 1, 2012. It discusses the situation in Afganistan, as the death toll among US forces had passed the 2,000 mark. 

   Speaking of the situation, it is necessary to note that the Afgan conflict is supposed to be "Obama's war" - "a war of necessety" (it started in 2001 after four coordinated suiced attacks upon the US in New York City and Washington, D.C.). Analyzing what's going on, it is necessary to emphasize that for the last several years the US and the Afghanistan government  have made attempts to agree with the Taliban, and it's an open secret that their efforts have not scored any result. Now when the presidential elections entering its final stages, the conflict has almost been forgotten. And the Republican candidate Mitt Romney, speaking of national security issues, has been reticent about Afghanistan. 

   So by the Telegraph view, this is an inopportune moment for America’s political classes to be suffering from a collective bout of amnesia. Besides, there is every reason to believe that the Taliban is a force to be reckoned with, as demonstrated by its recent spate of attacks against Nato troops.

  It's hard to predict the course of events in future but, I think, there is some evidence of the improvement of the situation that even if the US would negotiate with representatives of the Taliban about the future of Afghanistan, these agreements are difficult to consider reliable and durable. Becides, if  the US will withdraw its troops, ther's no confidence that  fighting in Afghanistan doesn't break out again.