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Wandering seven long years in the mountains and deserts of Afghanistan with hardly an end in sight, the US has just been offered a most fortuitous fix. It likely eludes America's current president and queuing candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain, but not for long. The fix is found in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Long considered the most stable of US allies in the Middle East, the Kingdom appeared last week best positioned to play a leadership role in the region after hosting a series of non-official talks between Afghanistan's oppositional leaderships: those formally sanctioned in Kabul under Hamid Karzai and those informally sanctioned, yet arguably equally powerful, under the Taliban.
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