Posted on 06/24/2013 9:18:32 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Is history repeating itself?
In 1998, the Clinton administration sat down at the negotiating table with the Taliban and secured a promise that the Taliban would “not allow terrorists to use Afghanistan as a base for terrorism.” A few months later, al-Qaeda blew up U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Three months after those attacks, the Clinton team was back at the table with the Taliban. According to declassified records, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright agreed “to engage in a serious and confidential dialogue with the Taliban through the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad.” While those negotiations were underway, another meeting was taking place in Afghanistan, as Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheik Mohammed sat down in Tora Bora to plan the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
See a pattern here?
Now in 2013, the Taliban has once again promised, in a statement announcing the opening of its new political office in Qatar, that it “does not wish to harm other countries from its soil and neither will it allow others use Afghan soil to pose a threat to the security of other nations.”
Don’t believe a word of it.
Taliban leaders are not interested in sharing power. Their goal is to get the United States out of the way so they can take over Afghanistan.
So why are the Taliban negotiating? Simple. It knows that Barack Obama wants to leave Afghanistan and close Guantanamo Bay — and they want to help him do both. . .
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EVERYBODY is playing Obama (except the Republicans).
why would the taliban negotiate away anything that we aren’t planning to give them for free when we bug out next year?
Maybe that is why O don’t be knowing who he is???
The whole world plays Obama and then the main stream press plays the American public.
Amen. Post of the day. Explains this entire mess in which we are
living through.
They are all playing each other and playing us in turn.
Obama isn’t really stupid enough to believe the Taliban, He is using them to play his ignorant followers.
The Taliban is playing him, he is trying to play us.
It’s a circle-jerk.
Q: Who can play Obama?
A: Anyone who is more intelligent.
Q: Which means?
A: That virtually any living creature in the multiverse can play Obama.
Response: Probably. However, the imbecile currently occupying our White House is known to wish he can take America down a peg; degrade us as a nation. He will de facto surrender to the Taliban.
Everybody keeps making the mistake of thinking that Obama cares even a little bit about: Being President; The United States of America; Socialism; The Moslems. Obama cares about himself and the Democrat party.
5.56mm
Seriously, this is all eye-wash.
We are in the process of handing Afghanistan over to the Talibs. Karzai knows it, so he will have to make his own arrangements for his future survival.
O is allied with Muslim Brotherhood and is in the process of knocking over governments all over the middle east and installing them in power. He is recruiting Al Qaeda militants to do the dirty work. Why would he bat an eye at returning the Talibs to power?
Or are the Taliban and Obama playing the U.S.?
Taliban is not playing obama since they are on the same team.
But obama IS playing president.
No, obama the taliban is playing us.
How about, "Obama and the Taliban are playing the American public"?
I should be ashamed of myself, for suggesting that Obama and the Taliban are on the same side. But I'm not.
Clinton belongs in prison for dereliction of duty.
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