Posted on 10/28/2011 8:55:21 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Washington ready to negotiate with Mullah Omar
Washington is ready to negotiate with Taliban leader Mullah Omar and now regards his involvement as crucial to the prospects for peace in Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton has said.
By Dean Nelson, South Asia Editor
4:24PM BST 28 Oct 2011
Her comments been taken as a significant shift in American policy from moves to divide the Taliban-led insurgency and isolate Mullah Omar, the man who sheltered Osama bin Laden as he plotted the September 11 attacks, to an acknowledgement of his leadership.
It follows the disclosure earlier this month that American officials had met leaders of the Haqqani Network, the powerful Taliban faction blamed for some of the most devastating attacks on American and Nato forces in Afghanistan, including last month's attack on the US embassy in Kabul in which seven were killed and 19 wounded.
Earlier this week the faction's commander Sirajuddin Haqqani warned Washington that only the Quetta Shura, led by Mullah Omar, could negotiate a peace deal and that his fighters would not be divided from its leadership.
In an appearance before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Mrs Clinton said the United States would continue to "fight, talk and build" in Afghanistan and Pakistan to "test whether these organisations have any willingness to negotiate in good faith".
She said there was "evidence going both ways" on its intentions, citing the Haqqani Network's response to a Pakistan-brokered meeting in August between US officials and Ibrahim Haqqani, the brother of the group's top leader Jalaluddin Haqqani.
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Oh yeah, I am sure this will work..../ huge sarcasm on!
MULLAH OMAR: “We are ready to negotiate.”
OBAMA: “We surrender.”
MULLAH OMAR: “That was easy!”
Un efen real.
I can’t wait to see how negotiating with the Taliban is going to work. I’m sure we can count on them to keep their word. LOL!!
Why not; the devil nogotiatiing with the devil/idiot. How can we possibly lose./s
I’m sure the families of the dead patriots and the 9/11 casualties are all on board with this.
I vote we negotiate with a drone.
He won’t show and he’ll send an eager martyr to the table.
A thread on that Taliban-meatball Mullah Omar is not complete without pinging THE FReeper with not only one of the most clever taglines ever, but one of the longest running!
Peace With Honor II. Maybe Kissinger is available as a consultant?
Oh oh, I feel an apology is coming on...
The list, ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
THESE DEMOCRATS RULING THIS COUNTRY TODAY ARE A BUNCH OF EFFING IDIOTS.
That must be the Queen's English right there!
Thanks for the ping. This is madness, unless Hillary plans on going James Bond, and shooting him dead with her brooch pin.
...now regards his involvement as crucial to the prospects for peace in Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton has said.One problem is, when she hits the big red reset button, it'll set off an IED.
The important thing is no politicians were hurt. I’ve always found it strange that the one plane that didn’t make it was headed for the pol’s.
Saying ready to negotiate to Islam is the same thing as saying ready for terrorism. You watch, within a month we will have terrorist attacks inside the USA.
The Globalists know this, they need an emergency and this is how to generate one. It is, after all why we tolerate Muslims, because in a global village, you do need your useful idiots.
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