Posted on 10/11/2010 10:52:12 AM PDT by Starman417
Afghanistan President Karzai has announced he is in "unofficial" peace negotiations with the Taliban; despite the fact that the United States is actively engaged in a war with the Taliban.
Karzai told CNN's "Larry King Live" in an interview to be broadcast Monday that "unofficial" peace discussions with Taliban representatives are continuing."We have been talking to the Taliban as countryman to countryman," said Karzai. "Not as a regular official contact with the Taliban with a fixed address, but rather unofficial personal contacts have been going on for quite some time."
On Sunday, the Afghan government named former President Burhanuddin Rabbani as chief of a new peace council tasked with talking to insurgent groups.
At first we feel like claiming moral outrage, but what choice does Karzai have for his own survival and some semblance of survival for his fragile government? Shakespeare used Hamlet II:2, to describe the dilemma Karzai faces with the premature withdrawal of the American War Machine.
Though this be madness, yet there be method in't.
Withdrawing before attaining victory is retreat; especially, in the Middle East and Karzai with all his corruptness and inept efforts at statesmanship, only mirrors those same attributes of our Commander in Chief; although, Karzai's decisions are not based on losing the support of his party, nay! he must base his decisions with the clarity and cunning of a desperate rat cornered by the cat.
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This is the absolutely predictable outcome of a deliberate policy decision by the _resident. Anybody who didn’t see this coming either has their head in the sand or is Joe Biden.
God enfold those Americans gave their lives for this conspiracy of jackals.
He’s looking ahead to the day we pull out. Trying to prevent a slaughter.
He needs allies or he’ll wind up dead, sooner than later. He’d make a deal with the devil or at least a minion to stay alive. Probably as aggravated as ObammyHusswhammy as much as most we the people do.
There are multiple Warlords leading tribes into shifting alliances. There is NO real central authority in that nation if it can even be referred to properly as a nation.
The Taliban used conservative religious practices to appeal or browbeat the population as a whole into subservience. For good or bad, they've acted like the cement that holds Afghanistan together.
Hamid Karzai has no ones envy. His is a really tough path and the Taliban is a reality he must deal with immediately.
I fault the Bush Administration for not sizing up the situation correctly - nation building in a land that has never been a true nation previously was foolish. GWB had bad advice. Iraq, Germany, Japan, Italy — all had historical if not a modern state in the recent past so it was really a case of rebuilding a nation. Afghanistan wasn't one before and is not now.
Looking back, we should have handled Al Qaida the same way we should handle pirates: quickly and decisively. We make it so incredibly painful for the people giving support and shelter to the pirates/terrorists, eventually the folks kick them out or kill them all themselves.
Terrorists or pirates are a stateless army/navy, and with no place to go, disperses. Whether it later reconstitutes depends on factors I'm not going to discuss here now.
We should cease with nation building. It is killing our own nation and we have internal problems with which to deal.
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