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Where’s the Moderate Taliban?
Cross Action News ^ | 3-18-09 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 03/19/2009 9:09:39 AM PDT by Victory111

President Obama wants to open negotiations with moderate factions of the Taliban. On first reflection, that sounds reasonable. Something like this worked in Iraq, after all. Obama says that “part of the success in Iraq involved reaching out to people that we would consider to be Islamic fundamentalists, but who were willing to work with us because they had been completely alienated by the tactics of Al Qaeda in Iraq.” And “there may be some comparable opportunities in Afghanistan and the Pakistani region,” although he grants that “the situation in Afghanistan is, if anything, more complex.”

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KEYWORDS: afghanistan; moderatetaliban; obama; taliban

1 posted on 03/19/2009 9:09:40 AM PDT by Victory111
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To: Victory111

They’re already dead.


2 posted on 03/19/2009 9:10:56 AM PDT by manic4organic (We Are S0 Screwed)
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To: Victory111

The radical Taliban praises Allah 10 times when chopping someones head off. The moderate Taliban only praise Allah 5 times.


3 posted on 03/19/2009 9:11:47 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: Victory111

Talibans are only moderate at room temperature.


4 posted on 03/19/2009 9:18:30 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Victory111

There is no such thing as a moderate Taliban.


5 posted on 03/19/2009 9:18:44 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: Victory111

“Stand up, Chuck!”


6 posted on 03/19/2009 9:20:37 AM PDT by Twinkie (Obama is NOT Reagan !)
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To: Victory111


Here's one, and this moderate Taliban is only 12.
7 posted on 03/19/2009 9:57:39 AM PDT by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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To: Twinkie; cardinal4

Looking for a moderate Taliban would be like looking for a moderate scorpion with your hand stuck in the terrarium.


8 posted on 03/19/2009 10:32:54 AM PDT by Ax
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