Posted on 10/29/2009 5:05:21 PM PDT by bogusname
Washington: Facing a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan, the Obama administration seems to believe in a "buyout" formula which involves paying the militants to leave the outfit and reintegrate to the society.
Hours before attending a solemn event to receive the flag-draped cases of 18 Americans killed in Afghanistan arrived at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, President Barack Obama signed a USD 680 billion defence appropriations bill, which will pay for military operations in the 2010 fiscal.
The bill includes a Taliban reintegration provision under the Commander's Emergency Response Programme, which is now receiving USD 1.3 billion. CERP funding also is intended for humanitarian relief and reconstruction projects at commanders' discretion.
Some experts on the region believe a US programme to pay Taliban fighters to quit the militant organisation is buying temporary loyalty, CNN reported.
The "buyout" idea, according to the Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is to separate local Taliban from their leaders, replicating a programme used to neutralise the insurgency in Iraq.
But Nicholas Schmidle, an expert on the Afghanistan- Pakistan region for the non-partisan New America Foundation, said that while the plan has a "reasonable chance for some success," the old Afghan saying -- "You can rent an Afghan, but you can't buy him" -- will eventually be borne out.
The bill comes as an uptick in violence claimed the lives of several American troops in Afghanistan.
REINTEGRATE —I like that..!!
Even JIMMY CARTER wasn’t THI$ $tupid or profligate....
THIS IS A BAD DREAM...?!
FUND THE ENEMY!
Now THERE’s a war-strategy that hasn’t been tried yet!
What a F’n bone-head.
Can it get any more ridiculous?
Why not? Protection money is probably a common idea in Chicago.
And if they change their mind again the bill mandates they give the money back per pinky promise.
Obama is the enemy.
That’s what liberals do with the military —apparently even foreign, irregular militaries. They turn them into SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS.
Next step: BLUE CARDS for under-the-weather Talibs.
Pretty soon our money won’t be worth anything anyway so why not!
Sure, why not. Obama trusts anyone who is bent on destroying us. He must, however, fight right wing conservatives. We are the only enemy as far as he is concerned.
Sounds like a clever scheme to fund the Kenyan Uspurper’s Muslim brothers. We know what side the ‘RATS are on — and it isn’t ours.
It turned out that this was what the (chronically side-changing) Italians had done.
Sure, now the USA is reallllly European. Nice, huh?
Let’s have the USMC in french-cuffs and worsted-wool sweaters..!
We’ll probably have to provide them with health insurance as well.
Cash for jihadis? Cash for beheaders?
Hey moron! You don't have any cash, and even less moral credibility.
Pay the bully —now that is rich. Oh, I’m suuure he won’t come back for MORE, ya know? Yeah, now he’ll LIKE him..!
Got all the way through Harvard Law but skipped the playground part?
EDUCATED BEYOND HIS INTELLIGENCE!
The Danegeld. Just pay the Dane.
However I don’t think Zero is that naive. In the end the goal is our subjugation.
The way to deal with the Taliban is a rather harsh ultimatum: Disband or be annihilated.
He needs to be shipped over to live with his muslim brothers.
Hasn’t Obama heard of Taqiah? Muslims teach that Allah approves of lying to the infidels, until they get a chance to cut their throats.
So, they will take the money and lie about friendship, use it to buy more weapons, and kill us when our backs are turned.
Oh, yes, that’s right. Obama knows perfectly well what Taqiah is, because he is a Muslim who practices it himself.
This administration is many times more dangerous for America than the rag headed taliban.
Gosh, I sure hope *Kim Jong Il* doesn’t here about this, you know...?
Cuz if dirty shirt guys with AK’s get a billion or so, how much MORE for Dr. Evil with NUKES...?
Nah..! No one will find out..!
Yes, exactly. Their holy book teaches them to lie and pretend they’re friends until they get a good chance to destroy us. Mohammed PBUH
Is this the “Cash for Talunkers” I’ve read about?
The MSM sure wouldn’t tell us. Personally I couldn’t be paid off. There is no amount of money that will stop me from hating Obama’s guts.
Cash for Bunkers or something like that. I forget.
From Cash for Clunkers to Cash for BUNKERS..!
Reparations for the Taliban .
That POS vermin scumbag in the WH has ROEs that protect the Taliban and put our troops at risk.
And now he rewards them.
If anyone should get financial rewards-it should be our troops.
Not the enemy that is killing them .
I await a single elected Republican to finally act outraged that Barry has hung our troops out to dry .
I think it’s going to be a long wait.
This ones fiction right?? Please say yes
Unless we elect someone like Rush Limbaugh or Joseph Farah it probably will be a long wait.
But now it's fun, righteous and PROFITABLE....!
Hopey Changey..!!!
When the EU is rich and we’re poor are they going to redistribute theirs?
You bedded my wife down? Well here’s $50,000...now can I have my wife back again and can we just get along?
Nothing they do surprises me. Nothing.
How can this administration not understand this? Isn't there anyone there who reads history, even casually?
Every day it feels more and more like we have turned our country over to a handful of seventh graders.
“”The “buyout” idea, according to the Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is to separate local Taliban from their leaders, replicating a programme used to neutralise the insurgency in Iraq.””
AND I’m positive Levin was in favor of that happening in Iraq! Why do these people suppose we are as stupid as they or their constituents are?
Well its about TIME a joker picture resurfaced! and burning $$$ That is great! That movie is slowly starting to sync with reality today its scary...
I bet that money will be put on pre-pay Visa/Mastercard,too.
The Moosemeisters must be laughing their arses off.
No, Bummer, they really truly do want to take over the world. A little mammon more or less isn’t going to derail them.
HE IS MAKING THE US PAY TRIBUTE TO HIS JIHADIST FIENDS!
The ‘Rat Card; Amass the liabilities!
This is the business model that keeps the Somalian pirates going strong.
Extortion.
Dumba$$.
Now THERE’s a war-strategy that hasn’t been tried yet!
Sure it has. Remember the War on Poverty which started almost fifty years ago? We won that one didn't we? Well, maybe not but at least we elevated poverty to a pretty high level.
Just as our poor can now afford two color TVs, two cars, lots of bling and crack, maybe now the Tally Ban can afford their own weapons and take the burden off the poor Iranians, Syrians, and Pakistanis.
Seems like logic is turned on its head constantly by Pres. Obama and his Mob?
"It's foolproof! If they rejoin the Taliban, they'll have to pay back the money!"
Chi Town Obama and his minions are assuming the Taliban think like their fellow Chicagoans. They don’t.
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