Posted on 03/31/2009 10:59:24 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The United States offered Taliban fighters who renounce violence in Afghanistan an "honorable form of reconciliation" on Tuesday as part of a revamped strategy to tackle a deepening insurgency.
Traditional U.S. foe Iran, attending an international conference on Afghanistan, pledged help in tackling the huge opium trade in its neighbor but stressed it remained opposed to U.S. and other foreign troops there.
The conference in the Netherlands is a chance for NATO and other U.S. allies to consult on the Afghan strategy unveiled by President Barack Obama last week stressing the need to cooperate with regional players such as Iran, Pakistan, Russia and India.
"We must ... support efforts by the government of Afghanistan to separate the extremists of al Qaeda and the Taliban from those who have joined their ranks not out of conviction, but out of desperation," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the conference in The Hague.
"They should be offered an honorable form of reconciliation and reintegration into a peaceful society, if they are willing to abandon violence, break with al Qaeda, and support the constitution," Clinton said.
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They are all dead...
“The United States offered Taliban fighters who renounce violence in Afghanistan an “honorable form of reconciliation”
They can’t be serious!
yes we also have non-Islamic, Muslims and a non-marxist president.
the 3 biggest lies have nothing on this crappola.
The non-violent ones are all dead I think.
>U.S. holds out olive branch to non-violent Taliban
F***ing morons.
Should also read:
>U.S. holds out olive branch to vegetarian cannibals.
“Non violent Taliban”? That’s like the definition of a “Klingon Diplomat”...a warrior who has run out of disrupter power cells!
April Fools Day is tommorrow- but this year I suspect it will lose much of it’s meaning. With our new leadership every day is fool’s day- so there is no need to celebrate any one day.
Charlie Wilson is still in office?
We have come full circle.
An oxymoron if there ever was one.
Didn’t the Taliscum tell Oblama to stick his peace offer up his ass?
Sorta like “Progressive Democrat”...;’}
In other news, President Obama is in talks with the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus to double their gifts to good little children as part of the Economic Stimulus Package. /sarc
ahem, there is no such thing as a non-violent Taliban.
Can you say Taqquiya?
.....*incredulous*....
One doesn’t join the Taliban unless they already are a violent extremist.
“ahem, there is no such thing as a non-violent Taliban.”
I hate to say this, but sadly we are going to find out like we don’t already know, that a non-violent taliban only exists in these stupid moronic anti-american officials minds.
God help us.
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