[Leaning Right]

> Taliban is assuring it will not allow Afghanistan to be used by terrorists to attack the United States <

Is there is even one person in the world who believes that?

Afghanistan will turn out to be even a worse debacle than Vietnam. At least the North Vietnamese didn’t plan attacks on the West after the war ended. What a disaster George W. Bush was.

[bert]

I will suggest that there was an offer made that could not be refused

During the meetings, the American chief negotiator pulled out a picture from his file, showed it to the chief Taliban negotiator and then put it back in the file. The American actually said nothing. He merely displayed the photo

The Taliban got the unspoken message

[Ouderkirk]

What the USA should have done at the time (2002) was PAID the Russian army (who needed the money desperately at the time) to go into Afghanistan and clean up. Bring us bin Landen’s head, no media, no questions, just make it happen. Straight down mercinaries.

We should have not cared if Afghanistan became a Russian satelite. It would have tunred out better for them, and for us.