Posted on 03/07/2009 2:53:11 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is open to the idea of reaching out to moderate elements of the Taliban, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
In an interview with the newspaper published on its website, Obama said that some of the U.S. success in Iraq involved reaching out to Islamic fundamentalists who had been alienated by the tactics of al Qaeda in Iraq.
"There may be some comparable opportunities in Afghanistan and the Pakistani region," he said. "But the situation in Afghanistan is, if anything, more complex."
Obama, who last month approved the deployment of 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan as part of an effort to stabilize the country, had suggested before becoming president that he was open to talks with more moderate Taliban leaders.
Insurgent violence is at its highest in Afghanistan since U.S.-led forces toppled the Taliban in late 2001. Obama, who sees the Afghan conflict as a more pressing concern than the unpopular war in Iraq, is trying to convince other NATO nations to boost troop commitments to the international operation.
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Obama is incompetent.
Did you mean the Taliban or Obama. Seems I am not sure these days.
More like a cheap whore. Seems everything is for sale now.
They’ll tell him to convert the US to islam or die.
That's like saying moderate cannibals. Obama is showing his ignorance and naivete here.
Obama reaching out to the Taliban.
Obama gives $900m to Hamas.
Hillary Clinton talks to Assad of Syria.
Is that what the Jews of America were expecting when they voted for the Messiah?
The moderate Taliban are the ones who merely supply the weapons and do the paper work (i.e figures of “dishonored” women and girls killed today, number of sharia executions, honor killings, beard count, etc)
Had 9/11 happened under the Democrats, they would have done it the Clinton way: send out a single unit of special forces to Afghanistan, withdraw them in a day, and then forget all about it.
Obama never had a mind. He is a ****ing idiot.
You might want to start looking now. Obama mentioned his “first term in office” in his state of the union address. That is a clear hint that this man intends to control elections.
This is an example of the stopped clock being right twice a day. Such an initiative is the analog in Afghanistan of what Gen. Petraeus did in Iraq vis-a-vis the Sunni insurgency that resulted in the Awakening movement. It worked in Iraq. It should work in Afghanistan.
Obama and all of his leftist supporters are already overreaching all over the place on all of the issues!
Moderate taliban-the oxymoron du jour.
He’ll probably offer them fed money to come to the US like he is doing for the Palis.
Ok, there may be moderate Muslims, but by deffiniition there are no Moderate members of the Taliban. The Taliban is what defines the radical members of Islam. Obama is double talking here to confuse his critics. This is an outright and defacto capitulation to these nuts. They are laughing all the way to the Morgue on this one.........
a moderate Taliban just wants to enslave you
a regular one wants to cut your head off
His ratings are tanking.
We haven't got a prayer with this boob in charge.
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