Posted on 07/10/2009 12:47:33 PM PDT by JimSEA
(CNN) -- Pakistan's military has declared that not only is it in contact with Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar but that it can bring him and other commanders to the negotiating table with the United States.
The acknowledgment of on-going communication with Taliban forces using sanctuary in Pakistan to launch military strikes against U.S. troops in neighboring Afghanistan is part of a new diplomatic overture to help the Obama administration find an end to the long-running conflict.
In a CNN exclusive interview, Pakistan military spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said in return for any role as a broker between the United States and the Taliban, Pakistan wants concessions from Washington over Islamabad's concerns with longtime rival India.
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India will be dumped but will they go quietly -- NO.
I imagine the Taliban wants to asks us if we’re ready to surrender.
Eight years ago we asked Mullah Omar to hand over Bin Ladin.
If he’s willing to do that now, we have something to talk about. If he isn’t, then he can stay in his cave and wonder at night if a Predator is circling overhead.
They see a weak apologetic fool in the Oval Office.
These are subhumans who have been killing American soldiers.
And obammy is gonna negotiate with them?
What our surrender?
Obammy is sure one unAmericans p.o.s.
I figure we already have surrendered it is the Liberals only option.
I'm not really quite sure what exactly can be negotiated... they promise not to behead or bomb anybody and we promise not to shoot up their weddings?
great! just fix his location and then kill him
That’s the form of negotiation we should be doing
Anytime these types want cease-fires or talks, you can believe it’s because they’re on the verge of defeat. Only a fool (and we have plenty in this administration) would fall for this.
Whats next direct talks with OBL? This country is doomed unless the electorate wakes the hell up quickly.
Taliban leader was elected President of the USA in 2008 under the stage name Hussein Obama.
Very good. Bring him to the negotiating table. And then blow it up.
“and we promise not to shoot up their weddings?”
and stop interfering with opium cultivation.
June 28
New Course for Antidrug Efforts in Afghanistan
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/world/asia/28holbrooke.html?_r=2&scp=5&sq=Holbrooke&st=cse
ROME — The Obama administration’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan told allies on Saturday that the United States was shifting its drug policy in Afghanistan away from eradicating opium poppy fields and toward interdicting drug supplies and cultivating alternative crops.
“The Western policies against the opium crop, the poppy crop, have been a failure,” the representative, Richard C. Holbrooke, told reporters on the margins of the Group of 8 conference in the northern Italian city of Trieste, Reuters reported. “They did not result in any damage to the Taliban, but they put farmers out of work and they alienated people and drove people into the arms of the Taliban.”
Good tag line.
Helps to know ascii character codes.
:)
Had to keep it short and many of the stories posted on the site elicit that response.
I STILL don't understand why our government is subsidizing the drug trade... the WOD is just a disaster on so many levels.
Keep your eye out.
Quite possible. Zero has been spending a lot of time with Sarkozy.
CNN) — Pakistan’s military has declared that not only is it in contact with Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar but that it can bring him and other commanders to the negotiating table with the United States
NEGOTIATE?
What on earth do we have to negotiate with these scumbag murdering terrorists about?
Now if they pledge to all kill themselves at the negotiating table then maybe we can spare them a few minutes....
O this should be good. 0be giving away the store to jihadis.
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