What is one to make of this???

I don't know how many people watch the news or read the news paper but I, myself, like to do both several times daily. This has been a practice of mine for several years now, so it can be safe to assume that I have my opinion on the war(s) in the Middle East. I usually try to keep my opinion to myself, knowing that we might not see eye and I want to respect that other person's opinion. I do this because I know that as an American citizen I can make a difference by voting, which is a given right. Granted, sometimes it might feel like my vote doesn't count but it still is my right to do so. This brings me to this cartoon above. Here we have the president of Afghanistan having peace talks with what appears to be a Taliban  leader of sorts.
Even though this cartoon has light colors and is meant be funny, at least that how I took it at first, but now, how can we be sure that this isn't what behind these "peace talks"? Food for thought