Posted on 03/28/2011 3:46:58 PM PDT by kronos77
MOSCOW | Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:47pm IST
(Reuters) - Russia said on Monday it was open to dialogue with the Taliban in Afghanistan, Interfax reported, echoing the U.S. position aimed at ensuring regional stability as Washington prepares to pull out its troops.
Russia fears the withdrawal of 100,000 U.S. troops, scheduled to begin in July, will leave a power vacuum in Afghanistan, allowing militants to filter into the oil and gas-producing countries of former Soviet Central Asia.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in February that the United States was mounting a "diplomatic surge" to end the war, saying the Taliban's only option was to split from al Qaeda, accept the Afghan constitution and join dialogue.
"We have no direct contacts with the Taliban. But Russia supports national reconciliation in Afghanistan, which is of crucial importance," Zamir Kabulov, Russia's envoy to Afghanistan, told Interfax news agency.
"If there are people among the Taliban, who can make this step -- we are sure there are such people -- we will be open for dialogue with them."
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Everyone have favorite Islamic bastards of their own....
Islam is islam, taleban is taleban, terrorist is terrorist... and communist is communist... and maybe this is what bothers them.
Are there any Muslim radical the Russian peasants won’t kiss up to? These are the same people suffering regular attacks from Islamic terrorists in the Caucuses with attacks occuring even in Moscow, yet Putin and his sock puppet Medevev just continue to shove their noses up the rears of the savages.
Let's turn Afghanistan over to the Russians and sneak out the back door quietly.
Thanks kronos77.
The distinction between AQ and the Taliban is roughly comparable to that between crocodiles and alligators; in other words, a distinction without a difference.
Why not?
The US supportet the Taliban savages agains the Russians, remember?
Many thousands of Russian soldiers captured by the Taliban were sent back home headless, all with the help of the US gummint.
Turnabout is fair play.
We should get out of that latrine pit and nuke them if they try to hurt us again.
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