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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They’re already dead.
The radical Taliban praises Allah 10 times when chopping someones head off. The moderate Taliban only praise Allah 5 times.
Talibans are only moderate at room temperature.
There is no such thing as a moderate Taliban.
“Stand up, Chuck!”
Looking for a moderate Taliban would be like looking for a moderate scorpion with your hand stuck in the terrarium.
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