Posted on 05/18/2011 8:48:12 PM PDT by This Just In
May 18, 2011
U.S. to Partner with Taliban...Instead of Killing Them
Andrew G. Bostom
As reported by the London Telegraph, new U.S. special envoy Marc Grossman, "Mr. Appeasement," ...err, "Mr Reconciliation," is busy completing the diplomatic side of our miserably failed COIN strategy which will deliver Afghanistan to the Taliban.
A Western official in Kabul confirmed the United States was in direct contact with the Taliban following a sea change in American policy this year. Marc Grossman, the replacement for special envoy Richard Holbrooke, has been nicknamed "Mr. Reconciliation" and told to focus efforts on trying to facilitate a political deal which would ease a US exit. "Those are no longer preconditions, they are being seen as negotiated outcomes," said the Western official. In February, Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, said the US would no longer insist on preconditions such as the need for the Taliban to renounce al-Qaeda and accept the Afghan constitution. Such declarations could be made after a deal had been reached. The pursuit of "reconciliation" in Afghanistan will be high on the agenda in talks between Mr. Obama and Mr. Cameron in London next week.
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Dumb. Or evil.
I thought NASA was going to handle this after they have their last, “last” shuttle launch.
The illegal alien communist in the White House is going to destroy this nation!
Unexpected? How come you think they gave up Osama and all the re-jiggering in the Arab NWO? I doubt it is the formation of the new NWO Zone.
Obama is Mr. Appeasement.
And if there is another major terrorist attack on the US, it will be directly attributable to Obama.
Sinister is the word that comes to mind. Don’t underestimate them as being “Dumb”. There’s a lot of calculating going on here.
Didn’t we try this once already? Didn’t Slick Willie try to buddy up with the Taliban?
Clinton didn’t possess the street cred.
If I were a betting man, I’d have to bet on “evil” in this case.
So true. I wish everyone could grasp that. Everything the Democrats do is calculated. They are surely not dumb. Evil but not dumb.
Insanity!
Unfortunately, you’d win the bet.
Fixed...
This makes perfect sense. Think about it.
1. If you can’t beat em, join em.
2. We are our own worst enemy.
Put those two together, and the strategy is clear. If we want the Taliban to lose, we must put them on our team, where Obama can sandbag and backstab them like he does our other friends.
That’s a one way to put it...
Nobody gave up Bin Laden. That’s speculative conspiracy bullshit.
I respectfully and strongly disagree with you.
You don’t team up with the enemy in order to defeat the enemy. You team up with the enemy because you’re both on the same side.
Perhaps we should have teamed up with Germany and Japan during WWII. You get the picture?
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Your comment assumes the administration was trying to “beat ‘em”. Nothing in their policies reveal such an action.
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