Posted on 10/21/2010 5:27:10 AM PDT by nuconvert
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Finally, the Taliban will never honor any agreement it makes. Like most modern insurgencies, its grievances are all pretexts: What it seeks is absolute power, exercised without restraint. We know how that movie ends.
There's one way—and only one way—the U.S. could get the Taliban to come to terms: a series of decisive military blows that give them no other option.
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Hmm, are they talking about the Taliban or the socialistic Democratic party? Could go either way. This is why when the new crop of Conservatives gets in Congress after the election there can be no compromising with them. Period.
Hmm, are they talking about the Taliban or the socialistic Democratic party? Could go either way. This is why when the new crop of Conservatives gets in Congress after the election there can be no compromising with them. Period.
Sorry for the double post - again. There’s something funny going on with my internet connection. Probably hussein and his minions looking for me. ;-)
There are only certain words they understand.
Words like - “Bang”, “Blooy” and “Boom”!
http://poliquicks.com/2010/10/21/caution-or-no-problem-in-talking-with-taliban/
CAUTION OR NO PROBLEM IN TALKING WITH TALIBAN?
by H. THOMAS HAYDEN on OCTOBER 21, 2010
Recently there appeared two articles from two major U.S. news papers on the same subject, on the same day but with diametrically opposed views.
Wall Street Journal
October 19, 2010
Pg. 17
Global View
“The Trouble With Talking To The Taliban: As in Vietnam, compromise is not in the insurgents’ playbook.”
By Bret Stephens
So the U.S. has now given safe passage to senior Taliban commanders for parleys with the Afghan government in Kabul. That’s good for Hamid Karzai, who must look to his own post-American world, good for the Obama
administration, which wants a politically graceful exit from Afghanistan, and excellent for the Taliban, which seeks to return to power. Too bad it also risks turning Afghanistan into another Vietnam.
New York Times
October 19, 2010
“Time To Talk To The Taliban”
By Richard Barrett
SPECULATION is growing both inside and outside Afghanistan that the government in Kabul is about to open reconciliation talks with the Taliban. Indeed, Taliban leaders, however hesitantly, are beginning to look at
alternatives to fighting. They no doubt realize that a military victory is as remote and as hard to define for them as it appears to be for President Hamid Karzai and his NATO allies.
How can one paper suggest caution and the other suggest… well, nothing??
Didn’t we already make this mistake with North Vietnam? They honored the agreement for as long as it took our troops to get out of Dodge.
I also read somewhere yesterday (don’t remember where) that NATO officials are escorting senior Taliban from their hiding places to meet and greet members of Karzai’s government. What concerns me here, beyond the fact negotiations are now ongoing, is they knew where these vermin were and didn’t exterminate them.
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