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The link was less than 1 hour old when I posted the new thread, not from back last October.
Did I call anyone out? Nope!
Maybe if you'd read the paper instead of a blog you'd find out that the date of the aritcle was: Oct 28, 2008 2:45 pm US/Eastern
(I'm a little late to this party, if it has already be mentioned)
But why we talk to them, is so more don't join them.
I'm glad Obama was not around in 1938 he would would want to talk to the Nazi's.
Ha ha, I love the Hitler/global world war example as being analogous with a disjointed group of radicals living in caves in mountains.
So do you think several divisions of Taliban in superior state of the art military machines such as tanks that outclass the M1-Abrahms or planes that can out fly the F-22 and F-16 are going to invade eastern Europe?
Or are you just spewing a hyper inflated diatribe of red meat to a bunch of people calling for continued war that they themselves are not willing to fight?
You know.. It appears that Americans rarely learn from their own experience.
In Iraq, the U.S. branded all Sunnis as either Baathist dead-enders or al-Qaeda, we lumped all Shia as being of a singular mindset. What we found is that there are Sunnis who were Baathist (there were Shia Baathist as well) who fought in support of Hussein, some who just fought against a foreign invader, and some who recruited into the war by the heavy handed tactics of some units in the early phase of the occupation. We also discovered that there are huge differences between the Shia.
So, what do we have in Afghanistan, a complete redo of the same failed thinking. The Taliban which means nothing more than "the students" is made up by a number of Pashtun tribal groups, under the loose confederation of a number of different tribal chieftains and warlords. In short, all Pashtuns and all self-described Taliban adherents are not created equal.
Some analysts cringed at the president's suggestion over the weekend that it might be time to open talks with moderate elements of the Taliban. (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/09/talk-taliban-outreach-obama-makes-court-press/ - broken link)
"David Rittgers, a legal policy analyst with the Cato Institute who served three tours with the U.S. Army's Special Forces in Afghanistan, said the statement would mark the most extreme attempt so far to engage an adversary."
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