There is a difference between part-time/bought Taliban and hardcore Taliban.....Gen. McChrystal knows the difference.....that I’m sure of. Most people who have never been to Stan, don’t understand this reality.
Get with the program.
But the "hardcore" rule
And people who have never come closer to combat than a game of Call of Duty never will understand, I fear you're wasting your time.
There’s always a difference between the hardcore and the followers. But the only way you can set the followers free is by defeating the hardcore, and it doesn’t sound as if we have any intention of doing that.
To me, reading this, it sounds like we are simply going to ask for an end of overt attacks and then hand it over to the hardcore, which can go back to intimidating the followers and building its strength.
Obama is indeed protecting the Taliban. He sees them as third-world Muslim freedom fighters getting back at the evil West, not as the vicious, oppressive fanatics that they are.
I feel for the Afghanis, particularly the Afghan women and girls whom we had (briefly) set free. I guess they don’t really count for much. Bomb their schools and send them back to the control of the religious police.
bttt
Yea, like they are not going to lie to become part of the govt. This is almost as pathetic as the Pentagon erasing Islam from the Fort Hood shootings.
McChrystal, Casey and Hammond are all clueless.
If they don't believe what the Taliban believe what makes them Taliban? Did they just chop off women's hands and cut their tongues out in a 'go-along-to-get-along' gesture to the real Taliban?
Just how much are we going to have to pay the part-time/bought Taliban to be not-Taliban and for how long? When they grow unhappy with their payments will they just form a union of part-time/bought Talibanis and go on strike for a bigger bribe? Is that what 0bammi's offering them, a stake in SEIU?