It is inconceivable that the Obama administration thinks there can be negotiations with Afghanistan's radical Muslim Taliban.
The president cannot have forgotten that the brutal Taliban regime sheltered Osama bin Laden and other leaders of the al-Qaida terrorist network -- the network that slaughtered nearly 3,000 Americans on our own soil on Sept. 11, 2001.
Yet Taliban leaders have met with U.S. officials to discuss "trust-building measures," The New York Times reported recently. And a handover of five Taliban leaders now held at a U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is being considered. The Obama administration previously deemed the men too dangerous to be permitted to leave. Have they suddenly become peace-loving?
There is no evidence, moreover, that the Taliban in general have turned over a new leaf and are now suddenly amenable to good-faith negotiations as the United States' military involvement in Afghanistan continues.
To the contrary, the Taliban are noted for their vicious rule of Afghanistan during the years prior to the 9/11 attacks, and there has been little sign of moderation since.
There is no easy way out of the war in Afghanistan. But we assuredly will not negotiate our way to peace with groups such as the Taliban.
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Ah but there is an easy way out of Afghanistan. Simply leave.
Negotiations from US presidents with our war enemies is nothing new in our generation: Japan, Korea, Vietnam and the first Iraq war. Based on history, with the advice of nucanuck we may have come out ahead.
There is a difference in negotiating with a country and it's leaders and a group of radical terrorist hell bent on killing as many Americans it can. There is only one way to deal with these people and it is a bullet but this just another spineless move this joke of a president is making. It is no wonder the leaders of most other nations call him weak.
NUCANUK nailed it!
just leave and let them wipe each other out!
the tribal,clannish society there is NOT gonna change! they are gonna be in the stone age for the next 500 years ! our only option is about every 50 years ,when the terrorist start gittin rowdy again is go in and bomb them back 100 yrs.
NOBODY IN HISTORY has won a land war against these people!
rogerdodger: No one's stopping you from picking up a rifle and going to Afghanistan.
In the words of former Israel Prime Minster Yitzhak Rabin, "you don't negotiate peace deals with your firends".
rogerdodger said...
"There is only one way to deal with these people and it is a bullet."
Yea that's work real well for us so far hasn't it?
Hey Tipper-just so you know I have twice as a matter of fact, but I am willing to bet you have never served this country. There is no way to negotiate with a group that has no true leadership and believes by killing Americans will get them closer to their God. But all of you country bumpkins know best I guess.
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