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US In Secret Talks With Taliban
business insider ^ | 2/19/11 | John Ellis

Posted on 02/19/2011 9:03:23 PM PST by Nachum

The Obama Administration has entered into direct, secret talks with senior Afghan Taliban leaders, several people briefed about the talks told me last week. The discussions are continuing; they are of an exploratory nature and do not yet amount to a peace negotiation. That may take some time: the first secret talks between the United States and representatives of North Vietnam took place in 1968; the Paris Peace Accords, intended to end direct U.S. military involvement in the war, were not agreed on until 1973.

When asked for comment on the talks, a White House spokesman said that the remarks that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made last Friday at the Asia Society offered a “thorough representation of the U.S. position.” Clinton had tough words for the Taliban, saying that they were confronted with a choice between political compromise and ostracism as “an enemy of the international community.” She added, “I know that reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable. And diplomacy would be easy if we only had to talk to our friends. But that is not how one makes peace. President Reagan understood that when he sat down with the Soviets. And Richard Holbrooke made this his life’s work. He negotiated face to face with Milosevic and ended a war.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: secret; taliban; talks; us

1 posted on 02/19/2011 9:03:24 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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2 posted on 02/19/2011 9:03:53 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum
Aaaaahhhhh, he's just trying to negotiate a good price for a burkha for Michelle...
3 posted on 02/19/2011 9:07:30 PM PST by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: Nachum

If they are secret, then why does everybody know about them?.....


4 posted on 02/19/2011 9:08:05 PM PST by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name. Want to have fun? Google your friend's names.....)
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To: Nachum

Obama, I suggest you go into the cat herding business. This is far simpler than “peace talks” with the Talibuddies.


5 posted on 02/19/2011 9:12:23 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: Nachum

Yup. We surrender.


6 posted on 02/19/2011 9:14:17 PM PST by AZLiberty (Yes, Mr. Lennon, I do want a revolution.)
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To: Nachum

give us al zawarhi and bin laden, then we talk


7 posted on 02/19/2011 9:14:54 PM PST by Selmore (Except for ending Slavery, Facism, Communism, and Nazism, War never has accomplished anything)
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To: Nachum

Is this anything like, “US enters into direct talks with the Muslim Brotherhood”... about two years before Mubarak found out about it.

If you were Karzai, you’d best be making other arrangements. He has been making other arrangements, because he’s seen this coming.

Obama’s grand stategy is to hand Egypt and Jordan over to the Muslim Brotherhood, Honduras over to Chavez proxies, and Afghanistan over to the Taliban. And proclaim victory.


8 posted on 02/19/2011 9:16:01 PM PST by marron
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To: Nachum

Russia went broke. When did they negotiate with Hitler or the Japanese?


9 posted on 02/19/2011 9:16:49 PM PST by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: Nachum

did they send Jane Fonda again?


10 posted on 02/19/2011 9:19:48 PM PST by oldbrowser (Blaming the prince of fools shouldn't blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that elected him)
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To: Nachum

Is he giving them forclosed property in
Dearborn, MI?


11 posted on 02/19/2011 9:24:20 PM PST by MissMack99 (Mitt Romney is a FRAUD, he RUINED Mass. Don't let him finish Obama's job.)
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To: marron

You forgot to mention Israel.


12 posted on 02/19/2011 9:26:24 PM PST by Eva
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To: Nachum

Whats to talk about? They throw acid on little school girls. I thought we were going to kill them all. If not lets just go home. Let these 7th Century primatives get back to growing poppies, beating women, buggering boys and killing each other with great abandonment as they have for the last 2,000 years.


13 posted on 02/19/2011 9:28:51 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Whats to talk about? They throw acid on little school girls.

Yes, but thanks to round-the-clock negotiations, the Taliban have agreed to only throw acid on little school girls on alternate Thursdays.

14 posted on 02/19/2011 9:34:06 PM PST by denydenydeny (Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak-Adams)
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To: Eva
You forgot to mention Israel.

You're right and I believe they are very much in the cross-hairs. Cairo and Amman are a prelude.

I honestly don't know whats going to happen but I do believe war is coming.

15 posted on 02/19/2011 10:18:55 PM PST by marron
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To: Nachum

Is Obama apologizing?


16 posted on 02/19/2011 10:40:30 PM PST by Dapper 26
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To: Nachum

The story of the scorpion and the frog comes to mind here.


17 posted on 02/19/2011 11:20:08 PM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: Nachum
Wasn't John Kerry just in Afghanistan?

Who has more experience negotiating with America's enemy?

Who else would you send?

Only now, He gets to go at the CIC's direction.

18 posted on 02/20/2011 6:01:22 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Nachum

Not so “secret” now, huh? =.=


19 posted on 02/20/2011 8:07:52 AM PST by cranked
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To: marron

What I find so amazing is that Glenn Beck says that he has seen the proof that our state department participated with the Google agitation of the overthrow of Mubarak.

...and no one is talking about it.


20 posted on 02/20/2011 9:06:10 AM PST by Eva
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