U.S. Trying To Convert Taliban To Ways Of Freedom

IBD Editorials ^ | May 22, 2012 | Editor

[Kaslin]

Defeat: President Obama's failure to re-open a key Pakistan-to-Afghanistan supply route is symptomatic of overall diplomatic incompetence. The U.S. thinks the Taliban and other jihadists can be converted into good guys.

Charm and brains (supposedly) and a Nobel Peace Prize. Armed with such tools — plus the mightiest military in the history of the world — why can't President Barack Obama convince piddly little Pakistan to clear the vital land route needed by the U.S. to haul tons of military vehicles from Afghanistan as the Yankees go home, which presumably is what the Muslim world wants?

The route has been closed since November. The reason given is America's refusal to apologize and pay reparations for U.S. airstrikes that hit two border posts and killed dozens of Pakistani soldiers.

But one could ask why Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, whose wife Benazir Bhutto was assassinated by al-Qaida-affiliated jihadists four-and-a-half years ago, would want to help the U.S. hand neighboring Afghanistan back into the hands of the fanatical Taliban.

Afghanistan watchers know that the country is gazing into an abyss that President Obama has rendered inescapable.

The coded signals of impending catastrophe he used in speaking to the NATO Summit this week include "hard days ahead," "great challenges ahead" and a "transformational decade."

But Obama's claim that "we will stand united in our determination to complete this mission" in Afghanistan is laughable upon close examination of what his administration's broad mission really is in Mideast policy.

[Kaslin]

Actually the title should be: 0bama Administration Trying To Convert Taliban To Ways Of Freedom

[Vendome]

Free them from the chains that bind them to this earth .308

[Travis McGee]

Part of the unwritten “final deal” (that we don’t know yet) is that all of our vehicles and equipment are going to stay, to be used or looted at leisure. We’ll be pulling them off rooftops by helo in the end, shades of 1975.

[hinckley buzzard]

Either way it's a very bad joke. Trying to graft western ideas of "freedom" onto a primitive ancient stock which bears no such fruit. Risible and fatuous. And that goes for Bush too who conceived of this fool's errand.

[dfwgator]

Good luck with all that.

[muir_redwoods]

It would be way better if we simply converted them to room temperature compost

[stephenjohnbanker]

0bama Administration Trying To Convert Taliban To Ways Of Freedom

In other news, Obama is determined to hammer square pegs into round holes..

[dfwgator]

You’d have an easier time converting Adolf Hitler to Judaism.

[Kaslin]

It shows you how stupid this administration is

[elkfersupper]

The money and effort would be better spent trying to train the coyotes to co-exist with the rabbits.

Dumba$$ fedguv.

[Hugin]

Too bad ultimatums are out of style.

[stars & stripes forever]

Trying To Convert Taliban To Ways Of Freedom
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Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom. Unless there’s a holy fire revival in the Middle East, it isn’t going to happen.

[Husker24]

I dont even consider the Taliban to be of the human species .

[piasa]

But one could ask why Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, whose wife Benazir Bhutto was assassinated by al-Qaida-affiliated jihadists four-and-a-half years ago, would want to help the U.S. hand neighboring Afghanistan back into the hands of the fanatical Taliban.

An interesting bit of trivia is that President Asif Ali Zardari's wife, Benazir Bhutto, played host when she was in office to the pinko British PLO-linked, Saddam Hussein Iraq-oil voucher bribe recipient and UK politician known as "Gorgeous" George Galloway. Benazir Bhutto apparently had Galloway on her pay/bribe list when Galloway ran a newspaper called the "Asian Voice" and channeled some large sums of cash to him. Galloway married into PLO terrorist leader Yasir Arafat's family and opposed the GWOT and Iraq war among other things.

Benazir Bhutto was also involved in a bribery scandal with the CEO Robert Massey of Cotecna, of Oil-For-Food fame and Niger uranium fame and also with the Swiss security company SGS which was on the UN payroll in WMD inspections.

Recall Pakistan's nuclear program was part of Paki nuke scientist a radical islamist Qasee Khan's network which was coordinating supplies and knowledge to a number of rogue nations' wmd programs.

Note also that it was Pakistan that empowered the Taliban movement in 1996 in an effort to bar the Northern Alliance general Massood [assassinated just days before 9/11/2001] and others in Afghanistan from reestablishing government there because Massood was on friendly terms with Pakistan's enemy, India.

Putting the Taliban back in charge would thwart India.

[JoanneSD]

IIRC Biden said we were not a war with the taliban....

[piasa]

The administion is not stupid... considering the admin is made up of washed up SDS thugs from the past with pedigrees in maoism... it’s just radical left. The admin is overly fond of helping China, the Pakistani left, and hostile Islam. Putting the Taliban in a position of strength will prevent India from extending more trade and security ties with Afghanistan; both China and Pakistan bellieve that is in their interest.

[a fool in paradise]

Unfortunately, Islam means SUBMIT.

[Travis McGee]

More like moonbeams into gold thread.

But the only gold is the bloody treasure we’ll leave behind, when we lift off the embassy roof.

[piasa]

Oops, I had the italics all wrong in the comment above the last.

But one could ask why Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, whose wife Benazir Bhutto was assassinated by al-Qaida-affiliated jihadists four-and-a-half years ago, would want to help the U.S. hand neighboring Afghanistan back into the hands of the fanatical Taliban.

An interesting bit of trivia is that President Asif Ali Zardari's wife, Benazir Bhutto, played host when she was in office to the pinko British PLO-linked, Saddam Hussein Iraq-oil voucher bribe recipient and UK politician known as "Gorgeous" George Galloway. Benazir Bhutto apparently had Galloway on her pay/bribe list when Galloway ran a newspaper called the "Asian Voice" and channeled some large sums of cash to him. Galloway married into PLO terrorist leader Yasir Arafat's family and opposed the GWOT and Iraq war among other things.

Benazir Bhutto was also involved in a bribery scandal with the CEO Robert Massey of Cotecna, of Oil-For-Food fame and Niger uranium fame and also with the Swiss security company SGS which was on the UN payroll in WMD inspections.

Recall Pakistan's nuclear program was part of Paki nuke scientist a radical islamist Qasee Khan's network which was coordinating supplies and knowledge to a number of rogue nations' wmd programs.

Note also that it was Pakistan that empowered the Taliban movement in 1996 in an effort to bar the Northern Alliance general Massood [assassinated just days before 9/11/2001] and others in Afghanistan from reestablishing government there because Massood was on friendly terms with Pakistan's enemy, India.

Putting the Taliban back in charge would thwart India.

Last time I checked Obama's never BOWED to an Indian official. Am I wrong? Perhaps they are too British-like for his tastes.