Ping.
These are the people that we are fighting in Kandahar.
We cannot compromise with fanatics. The Taliban are fanatics by definition.
And even if there were such a thing as "moderate" Talibans and we made a deal with them, where would that leave us with the "immoderate" Taliban that would not attorn to the deal.
AMEN!
Can we deal with moderate members of the Mafia, Bloods, Hells Angles, etc. to reduce crime?
The Moderate Taliban came and left me a basket of chocolate eggs and jelly beans last night. /sarc
Amen to this! Islam poses a greater threat to human freedom than the USSR did!
Islam is a barbaric social philosophy wrapped in the pseudo religious trappings espoused by a Seventh Century madman given to hypnotic rants. It has no place in modern society, and, in fact, seeks to drag the entire world back to the Seventh Century.
Moderate Taliban? Those are the ones running out of ammunition.
Well in Obama's defense, the extremist Taliban would have beheaded her.
Gee Joe only about 5% of the members of the Nazi party were fanatic followers of Hitler so I suppose we need not have fought WW-II if we had negotiated with the “moderate” Nazis.
Well written piece. Excellent analysis. My favorite line:
Obama should record the screams of Chand Bibi and play them to his daughters as the "moderate" music to which he wants to dance in his Afghan war.
While the US MSM buries their collective head in the sand (or up their a$$) the foreign press is starting to wake up and take a look at this bizarre creature we have elected pres..ent. They are listening to his idiotic ramblings and speculating about the future. This will not happen in the US liberal press because these guys have invested all their credibility in Hopey Changey.
Maybe US feminists should play the screams of Chand Bibi to their daughters. Oh, that's right, I forgot they are mostly aborted.
Taliban are by defination, nutbar extremists. Modetate taliban would be Moderate Nutbar Extremists.
Moderate members of the Taliban train radical members to blow themswlves up, but will not strap on a bomb themselves.
The Moderate Taliban will only cut your head half-way off.
Moderate meaning cutting off hands instead of heads.
Throwing acid in the face of schoolgirls rather than burning them alive.
The kind of moderate embraced by Obama.
Only an idiot could believe in a “moderate Taliban.”
Oh, Joe Biden used the phrase? There you go.
That's really why we're there, isn't it?
Yeah, this whole “Moderate Taliban” concept sort-of sounds like someone who is searching for the vegetarian lion, or another whose intent is to teach table manners to a shark.
Its so without merit of logic and rational thinking that it borders on fantasy.
In Zero’s case make that a wild drug-induced fantasy.
Well, I can’t find anything to complain about in Pakistan.
The place, I hope, is like an icecream cone on a sunny day.
Let’s continue the fictions of American foreign policy regarding Pakistan, that they can be convinced to fight the jihadis when the jihadis for 60 years have been a primary instrument of Pakistan strategic policy towards India.
There is a possiblity Obama could pull this out; after all, like David Miliband of the UK, the only violence that would concern the West is that conducted against it.
As far as Indians or Afghanis dying as the result of Pakistan sponsored attacks, honesty, who really gives a shit.