Posted on 03/18/2009 7:38:47 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
Growing up we all believe what we want to. For years my son believed that there were monsters under his bed at night, my daughter believed that a unicorn would show up for her to ride away. Both of them believed in the tooth fairy (there was one of those, it was me in a costume). Part of the growing process is that we realize that these childish myths are not real by any means.
Surprisingly, there is one childish myth that many otherwise intelligent adults cling on to. That's the myth that there are moderate members of the Taliban. Last week President Obama, suggested that a key part of his Afghanistan "surge" plan was to engage the moderate Taliban. Obama explained that this was the equivalent of what we did in Iraq. Let me suggest you are more likely to look up into the winter sky and see a fat guy with a red coat and white beard riding a sled being pulled by flying reindeer, than see this plan work. You see, engaging the Sunnis in Iraq is a totally different situation as engaging the Taliban, and like all adults know, there are no Unicorns, Monsters Under the Bed, or MODERATE TALIBAN:
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I’m holding out on the “there are no unicorns” - however, there certainly are no moderate taliban.
Moderate Taliban: Cuts off heads but doesn’t eat them.
I believe in Obama's patriotism.
I believe in our unbiased mainstream media.
I believe that stricter gun control will protect law-abiding citizens from criminals.
Perhaps there are “Moderate Drug Lords” in Mexico as well. 0sbama may want to seek them out and make a deal.
Moderates? There are probably as many moderate taliban as there were moderate Sunni terrorists killing Americans in Iraq and Bush put them on the payroll! In any case, the term moderate is pretty much meaningless in Afghanistan. Opportunistic is a better word. There is an old saying that you can rent an Afghan fighter but never buy one.
There is $200.00 placed at the intersection of 4 roads. At each of these roads are respectively Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, a Moderate Jihadist Muslim and an Extremist Jihadist Muslim.
Question: Who will get to the money first?
Answer: The Extremist Jihadist Muslim because the other three are Mythical Characters.
Styen is great !
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