Posted on 01/11/2013 6:39:51 PM PST by Olog-hai
The Taliban, which harbored al Qaeda in Afghanistan in the lead up to the 9/11 attacks on America in 2001, will have an office in Afghanistan and engage in direct talks with the democratic government there, President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai affirmed at a joint White House news conference Friday.
“Ultimately security gains must be matched by political progress, so we’ve recommitted our nations to a reconciliation process between the Afghan government and the Taliban,” Obama said. “President Karzai updated me on the Afghan government’s road map to peace, and today we agreed that this process should be advanced by the opening of a Taliban office to facilitate talks.”
Karzai agreed this would be an important step for the peace process.
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Iran has been identified as the #1 state sponsor of terrorism for many decades; they’ve declared war on us over and over and we didn’t act. Nothing was done about them, so the problem spread across many other countries. Now it’s in Egypt, and it’s starting to grow in Ethiopia. If we pull back to our own borders, then they will follow us there. Bad enough that a “pre-9/11 mentality” has already been identified in the thinking at DC. We surely didn’t wait for Germany to attack us on home soil—as soon as they declared war on us after Pearl Harbor, off we went to meet them in Europe.
Tonight on “Taliban Office,” Mohammed Scott beheads Meredith for drunkeness before Allah! Elsewhere, Jim Ali Hussein forces his new wife Pam into a burkah under threat of beating! Tune in!
There is never been a lasting peace in Afghanistan,what will probably happen is Karzai’s government will collapse and the Taliban will return to the territory they controlled circa 9/11.
While remnants of the old government return to the old Northern Alliance frontier.What is idiotic is that our soldiers are still getting killed,still getting in trouble and still being lectured on absolute bs on how to treat the locals.
Staying in Afghanistan or leaving will not determine whether these animals will leave us alone. IMHO
I hope Dwight mohammed is still funny...
I agree with your first couple sentences, but you didn’t answer any of the questions I asked.
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Well, you asked where does it end, so the only way to answer that was to identify where it began at the very least, that being Iran. Take out Iran and the rest of them will be severely weakened. But that seems to be the untouchable country on any president’s list.
All depends on what we do if we stay. Running will not make them say “OK, time to leave the Great Satan alone, they’ve had enough” . . .
True ... turn Afghanistan into a sea of glass would be the only thing that would quite the taliban down, however the taliban had nothing to do with 9/11.
Islamist will be forever targeting the US and our presence in Afghanistan will do nothing to deter them.
I recall Truman set up a Nazi Office in the new Germny under the same thinking.
Our problems with terrorists are solved in one way only; by killing every last one of them. I remember 9/11 and I AM STILL PISSED.
Only if its purpose is to corral them in a known location for Ms. Daisy Cutter to visit.
We need to just bomb the crap out of them, no more nation building. You can’t make savages into civilized people.
Great idea. They should have tried that with Japan and Germany in the closing days of WW2. That generation of leaders were much smarter than the current ones, so it would have stood a better chance of success.
“I said, ‘Jim, you know what makes it most frustrating about this assignment? It's not the hardships. It's not the gunfire. It's not the threats. It's dealing and fighting against the people, programs, and personnel who are supposed to be supporting me,” Nordstrom said. “’For me, the Taliban is on the inside of the building.”
He was right. The Taliban have been in the White House for four years.
Yep, I still hear the echoes from some here that Romney was as bad or worse than Obama. You idiots!
I recall first hearing the term "compassionate war", thinking, what kind of bullcheet is this?
After spending multiple trillions, WTF did we win?
We didn't even win cheap gas for cripes sake.
And this isn’t even a satire piece. And the Barry Bizarro World saga continues....
This is satire, right?
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