Other than being completely contradictory?
He flatly says that he would never support entry of the Taliban into the Afghan government, which was the entire thrust of the AP article.
You can believe the AP, or you can believe what he himself is saying in an article he controls, but you can't say there's no difference between the two.
I never said that there wasn't a difference; I said that the difference wasn't significant.
Appeasing the supporters of the Taliban is the same as appeasing the Taliban itself, because it means pandering to the infantile and repressive desires of those that the Taliban appeals to.
If we follow this path, it will be every bit as bad - it doesn't matter if it's Ahkmed or Ajidi in charge, if they're going to institute the same policies.
We're fighting a mindset here, not individuals. We need to defeat Islamofascism as a whole, and any degree of appeasement will simply be seen as weakness.
Frist's clarification hasn't changed a thing, because even if the details are different, the message is the same - namely, "If we make them happy, maybe they'll stop".
And that will never work.