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Talks with Taliban moderates 'worth exploring' - Joe Biden
Herald Sun ^ | 11 March 2009

Posted on 03/10/2009 10:17:53 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher

TALKING with Taliban moderates in Afghanistan is a tactic "worth exploring", US Vice President Joe Biden says.

"It's worth exploring. The idea of what concessions would be made is well beyond the scope of my being able to answer,'' said Mr Biden at NATO headquarters in Brussels today.

"I do think it's worth engaging and determining whether or not there are those who are willing to participate in a secure and stable Afghan state,'' he said.

Mr Biden said that while the US-led forces were not winning the war in Afghanistan, neither was the conflict lost.

"We are not now winning the war but the war is far from lost,'' he said.

Earlier he warned that Afghanistan posed a terrorist threat to all NATO countries as he sought help for a new strategy to confront the Taliban insurgency.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: joebiden; taliban; talks; terrorists
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While we're at it, let's invite Bin Laden round for a bbq and a few beers!!!

This Administration is VERY odd!

1 posted on 03/10/2009 10:17:53 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
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We have a President and Vice President short a few brain cells. There are NO moderate Islamists!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

2 posted on 03/10/2009 10:21:21 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Aussie Dasher

The notion that there are ‘Moderate’ Taliban and that they can be reasoned with is totally absurd and fallacious.

The Taliban themselves pointed out Obama’s folly today, calling this rhetoric “illogical”

I have a video uploading to Youtube this very minute discussing this asinine foreign policy blunder.

God Help us.


3 posted on 03/10/2009 10:22:13 PM PDT by lmr
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To: Aussie Dasher

These yokels have just plain lost their chit. We have been taken over by morons and zombies. 325 million people being held hostage by 2 zombies and 535 morons.

It is time to say enough is enough. This fool has been in office 50 days and we are down the tubes.


4 posted on 03/10/2009 10:25:08 PM PDT by Concho (01-20-2009--The beginning of an ERROR)
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To: Aussie Dasher

So’s the idea that your famously high IQ will be enhanced by hair plugs, Joey. THAT’S THREE LETTERS, JOEY, J-O-E-Y.


5 posted on 03/10/2009 10:26:12 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Mr. Bernanke, have you started working on your book about the second GREATER depression?")
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To: Aussie Dasher

“The idea of what concessions would be made is well beyond the scope of my being able to answer”

Another piece of governance above their pay grade.

OK, Joe, will you be in charge of picking out the gifts for foreign dignitaries from now on? Could you handle that?


6 posted on 03/10/2009 10:27:41 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Mr. Bernanke, have you started working on your book about the second GREATER depression?")
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To: Aussie Dasher

They are no different than anyone. People only think and believe what they know. One hell of an insight into this administration. Idiots, yes.


7 posted on 03/10/2009 10:27:41 PM PDT by eyedigress
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This Administration's idea of a "moderate" Taliban is a fanatical Muslim who kills you with a bullet rather than beheading you! I'll take the extremists.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

8 posted on 03/10/2009 10:28:59 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: eyedigress

Isn’t it a bit like Kissinger said of Carter? It isn’t that he doesn’t know; it’s that he doesn’t know that he doesn’t know.


9 posted on 03/10/2009 10:31:08 PM PDT by ducdriver
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To: Aussie Dasher
America has been taken over by mentally ill people. The inmates are in charge.

I would love for Biden or Obama to go visit them. You KNOW they would probably get their heads cut off, and that would be just fine with me. It saves on the cost of rope. LOL!

10 posted on 03/10/2009 10:31:08 PM PDT by NRA2BFree
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To: Aussie Dasher

Man, oh man, we have some of the dumbest people in America running the country now.


11 posted on 03/10/2009 10:32:05 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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I guess he didn't get the memo from Present Obama's new BFFs

Taliban say Obama's call on moderates "illogical"

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5:27:46 PM · by the anti-liberal · 97 replies · 1,726+ views
Reuter ^ | Tue Mar 10, 2009 | Reporting by Sayed Salahuddin; Editing by David Fox
"The Taliban are united, have one leader, one aim, one policy...I do not know why they are talking about moderate Taliban and what it means?"

What it means. Zig for great justice. They set us up the bomb

12 posted on 03/10/2009 10:32:52 PM PDT by Syncro (NerObama Parties Hardy And fiddles While The American Economy Burns)
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This Administration is VERY odd!

I agree. This administration is nuts!

13 posted on 03/10/2009 10:34:12 PM PDT by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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To: ducdriver

Well, that’s it in a nutshell. They don’t know and capture the heart of every other bastard in this country that doesn’t know either. That’s enough for me to know there is a higher power.


14 posted on 03/10/2009 10:38:28 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: Aussie Dasher

This would be like trying to find moderate Nazis in Germany, who were you going to talk to Goering?, Goebbels? Hess?


15 posted on 03/10/2009 10:40:53 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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That's a good one, ducdriver.
I like this one, too:

The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so.~~Ronald Reagan

16 posted on 03/10/2009 10:42:45 PM PDT by rvoitier (O.B.A.M.A. - One Big-Ass Mistake, America)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Moderate Taliban? Now, there’s an oxymoron (Yes, I’m referring to Biden too).


17 posted on 03/10/2009 10:47:01 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier presently instructing at Ft. Benning.)
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To: LukeL
Neville Chamberlain thought Adolf Hitler was a man of his word. We all know where it led to. History repeats itself in the two stupidest men ever to lead the United States at such a turbulent time in its history!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

18 posted on 03/10/2009 10:54:03 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Odd? You mean retarded and treasonous.


19 posted on 03/10/2009 10:56:52 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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...of what concessions would be made is well beyond the scope of my being able to answer

....above his pay grade too. The concessions or just being able to answer, because your capabilities to represent the US with dignity and confidence is sorely missed.

20 posted on 03/10/2009 10:56:58 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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