They offended Mohammed/Allah and had to be wiped from the historical record.
Posted on 10/09/2009 1:32:43 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
United States feels that Taliban poses a lesser threat to American security than al-Qaeda, the White House said here today, as media reported that the Obama administration has concluded that Taliban cannot be eliminated in Afghanistan.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs sought to make a clear differentiation between Taliban and al-Qaeda as he said al-Qaeda was an "entity that, through a global jihadist network would seek to strike the US homeland".
"I think the Taliban are, obviously, exceedingly bad people that have done awful things," Gibbs said. "Their capability is somewhat different, though, on that continuum of transnational threats," he added.
Gibbs remarks comes as Obama is intensely engaged in a intense Afghan policy review and raise speculations that the US President might not opt for increasing US troops in the war-torn country.
I’ve felt that the Taliban and Al Qaida became one entity long ago and that to refer to one is an inherent referral to the other. Can the Administration not see that?
I can understand their opinions. When is Gibs and Obama going to Afghanistan to have lunch with them? I think the American people would pay to send them there.
That overlooks the fact that the Taliban and Al Qaeda are allies.
“United States feels that Taliban poses a lesser threat to American security than al-Qaeda, the White House said here today”
In a similar development, Winston Churchill announces on February 15, 1942 that Imperial Japan, although it has just taken Singapore, still poses a lesser threat to British security than Nazi Germany.
So, al-Qaeda changes it’s name to Taliban and we will leave them alone.
Crap, Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize???? There has been an uncorrectable rift in time.
So, al-Qaeda changes it’s name to Taliban and we will leave them alone.
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And what name will ACORN change to so we leave them alone?
Because after all, what’s in a name?
Of course they can. They just want to sell retreat as advancing in a different direction.
Excuse me??? Ask all those Afghani women who will again be treated as bad as slaves if the Taliban is allowed to take over again! God help them!
Obama wants out of Afganistan real bad so he can focus on turning us into Norway.
As someone indicated on one of the Nobel threads, “Norwegian wood” won this for the man.
They offended Mohammed/Allah and had to be wiped from the historical record.
Uh ... You do know that that was actually Churchill's take on the matter, don't you?
Yes, it sounds like (from other reports I’ve heard from Gibbs) that some control will be handed over to the Taliban.
I think he’s refering to the threat they pose to the US, rather than hapless Afghani natives....
The Taliban, however, are the ones who actually caused us to get into this war in the first place, by providing aid and support to Al Qaeda.
To now pretend that they're separable is like suggesting that the Wermacht posed a lesser threat than the Nazi Party.
ACORN has already changed it’s name.
“To now pretend that they’re (Al Queerda and the Taliscum) separable is like suggesting that the Wermacht posed a lesser threat than the Nazi Party.”
That’s what happens when stupid-ass, sh#t-scared, white liberal-guilt ridden losers elect a racist, treasonous, closet homosexual, testosterone-deficient, drug using POS teleprompter, married to a GD cobra-looking, ugly-ass biatch.
He’s a fool if he thinks it’s not all interconnected.
But...then...we already knew that!
“The attack began in the early morning hours. Taliban-linked militiamen struck from the high ground using rifles, grenades and rockets against the outpost, a cluster of stone buildings set in a small Hindu Kush valley that has been manned by 140 U.S. and Afghan forces. By the end of a day-long siege, eight Americans and two Afghan security officers were dead, marking the highest toll for U.S. forces in over a year.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/04/AR2009100400778.html?hpid=topnews
Yep, no threat. /sarc
Oh, absolutely. But the threat they pose to the Afghani women is irrelevent in this context. The Taliban aren’t the only gang of murderous tyrants in the world, or by any means the most successful. There are plenty around the world who are just as bad if not worse who are actually fully in charge of their own particular backward, hellhole nations.
The threat posed by the Taliban is seperate to their domestic asshattery. As many in the top brass of the British and American militaries have stated, allowing the Taliban to win this war would have an electric effect upon muslim fanatics everywhere for having taken on and beaten the world’s only superpower and its allies in an armed confrontation, and the threat posed by the likes of Al Quaeda will magnify in size and become even harder or even impossible to subdue....
You are absolutely correct. I was just finding the lowest
denominator in their level of threat. If nothing else happens, the region will revert back to the days of terror and misery to their very people, much less the impact that a loss has on our standing in that region.
Is it a secret or are you going to share?
To what....”NUTS” Inc.?
The list, ping
They probably know that, but it’s politically expedient to ignore it. Ostammer will crawl into bed with the Taliban in order to bring an end to the war in Afghanistan. They’ll be back in full control six months thereafter. All our efforts, soldiers killed and maimed and money spent will have been for NOTHING.
But I expected exactly that from ostammer and his administration. They don’t want money spent on national security. They want to spend it for entitlements to buy votes with.
The Taliban is a regional entity and al-Qaeda is an international entity. The Taliban may support al-Qaeda, but their aims are quite different. The Taliban harbored al-Qaeda, certainly, and deserved to suffer the consequences of that. But they are NOT the same thing. We could live very easily in a world with the Taleban ruling Afghanistan (although NOT Pakistan), as they did before 9/11. We cannot live very easily with al-Qaeda as a working entity plotting international terrorist attacks. We must differentiate between these two if we wish to work in the interests of US security.
Wow, I feel reassured now. Knowing that the Taliban is less of a threat than Al-Qaeda was probably what tipped the scale in favor of Obama winning that ridiculous Nobel peace prize. LOL.
They changed it months ago, Glenn talked about it.
Can we with live with Hitler’s Nazi Party ruling Germany so long as we can get him to honor his pacts with Mother Russia, Italy, and even the French?
I mean, we can have SANCTIONS on him to keep him from expanding his military and because of the ways he treats Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Catholics, Protestants, and those who disagree with his politics. But we can “co-exist” with intolerant radical supremacist ideologies holding top political office of an entire nation, no? < /sarc >
PS Pakistan has nukes.
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