White House shifts Afghanistan strategy towards talks with Taliban

UK Guardian ^ | 7/19/10 | Ewen MacAskill and Simon Tisdall

[cranked]

Here is one huge arse problem with liberalism, whether in the US domestic political form or in the field of international relations: With all due idiocy, it believes wholeheartedly that ‘we’ should talk and negotiate with terrorists, terrorist supporters, etc....... =.=

[Cyber Ninja]

Talk... ? Chat...? Oh, kibitz, right, my bad...

[Lurker]

"There is no military solution. "

Actually there is. It's just that you Washington types are pussies.

[BARLF]

AND General Petraeus will go along with this?

[Blood of Tyrants]

I remember a time in the not to distant past where the policy was to kill terrorists and to never, ever negotiate with them.

[Thunder 6]

sad, but true...

regards,

[Siena Dreaming]

"There is a change of mindset in DC," a senior official in Washington said. "There is no military solution. That means you have to find something else. There was something missing."

Just in time to woo those anti-war lefties back to the voting booths, eh?

[Oceander]

Here we go; hang onto your seats, we're in for a rough landing, this ain't Hanoi, this is ...

[NormsRevenge]

The question remains .. How many more thousands or millions dead here will it take.. before we wage a war on those who seek our destruction and not a peace action?

Looks like we got until 2014 to wait for an answer.

[mylife]

Hey lets give them payoff money as well.
Yeah, that’s the ticket...

[Steely Tom]

I’m sure Obammy’s strange animal magnetism will turn the corner with the Taliban.

[Will88]

The Taliban won’t negotiate. They’ll just lie and deceive until they get the Americans out of Afghanistan. And they know that’s what Obama wants more than anything else.

[mylife]

It goes back to Jefferson.

We don’t negotiate with Terrorist’s

[citizencon]

Arrogant amateurs making them up as they go along...

[mylife]

taqiyah

[Thunder90]

AND General Petraeus will go along with this?

Petraeus will not be in A-stan for long. He will be fired by the end of the year, to be replaced by a State Department civvy lacky.

[Iron Munro]

Deja Vu all over again.

In many ways Obama isn’t so different than most of his predecessors over the last 80 years.

[BARLF]

What a mess, what a frigging mess.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Exactly, I believe that the rallying cry was, “Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.”