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WH pressing UN to Rescind Taliban Sanctions
The Obama Report ^ | 6/2/11

Posted on 06/02/2011 5:28:37 PM PDT by Frankusa

First, the spin, compliments of the Obama administration:

The Office of Foreign Assets Control plans to withdraw the Taliban Sanctions Regulations issued under former President Bill Clinton, which banned all financial transactions with members of Taliban and placed an embargo on trade with areas of Afghanistan they controlled....

The agency says it is withdrawing the regulations because they were made redundant by the fall of the Taliban from power in Afghanistan and subsequent executive orders which more narrowly targeted individual members of the Taliban...

Nice, benign spin, but here's the real deal: The 2012 Presidential campaign has already started, which means Obama needs an exit strategy in Afghanistan to mollify his base, even if it means striking a deal with the Devil and consequently delivering a severe blow to the future of Afghanistan.

Here's the real deal!:

Britain and the United States are pressing for United Nations sanctions against 18 former senior Taliban figures to be lifted later this month in the strongest indication yet that the western powers are looking for a negotiated peace with the Taliban.

Candidates include the controversial former head of the regime's religious police, Mohammed Qalamuddin, whose officers were responsible for some of the worst atrocities under the Taliban regime.

Officials believe the move would send a clear signal to insurgents that reintegrating into Afghan society is possible if they put down their arms.

The sanctions were imposed in 1999, when the Taliban were in power, and were expanded after the 9/11 attacks on America. They ban about 140 individuals from traveling or holding bank accounts. Removing the restrictions has been a key demand of insurgents in Afghanistan...

The removal of men like Qalamuddin is likely to be controversial. Patrols run by the religious police chief beat women and men in the street to enforce the Taliban's rigorous interpretation of Islam...

It was recently disclosed that US officials and a Taliban representative have held three meetings in the last two months, two in Qatar and one in Germany...

Perhaps this partially explains why the President's job approval ratings are back to were they were prior to the raid on Bin Laden's compound. This is a President, after all, who has an affinity for coddling the enemy.

Sadly, when a US President presses the [rogue infested] UN to lift sanctions against the bad guys, you know we're really hitting rock bottom.

Sigh.....

Related: Will the President's decision to engage in direct talks with senior Afghan Taliban leaders provoke another Muslim uprising - in Afghanistan?


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: lift; obama; sanctions; taliban

1 posted on 06/02/2011 5:28:45 PM PDT by Frankusa
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To: Frankusa

Though I know what they are trying to do, this does not exempt this action or this administration from being idiot-ridden. =.=


2 posted on 06/02/2011 6:56:34 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Frankusa

Wow this is an outrage. How can they even consider this, with thousands of troops deployed against the Taliban?


3 posted on 06/02/2011 6:57:17 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: FlyingEagle

take all their assets and kill every last one of them!


4 posted on 06/02/2011 7:02:17 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: FlyingEagle

Because they are idiots. They actually believe they can negotiate with the lying Muslims, and what makes that truly amazing is that they as Democrats are incapable of submitting to negotiation.

It proves once again the business about Libs and a mental disorder.


5 posted on 06/02/2011 7:06:13 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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