This is some of the most disturbing news to come out of the Obama Administration yet. We are trying to negotiate a surrender to the Taliban in Afghanistan. No less a leading “Patriot” the John f’n Kerry is our lead negotiator. What could go wrong?
Sen. Kerry: ‘Very active’ efforts under way to reach settlement with Taliban
By Jordan Fabian – 08/20/10 07:27 PM ETSen. John Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Friday that there is a “very active” effort under way to reach a negotiated political settlement with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Kerry (D-Mass.) acknowledged that “efforts” have begun after visiting Afghanistan and Pakistan this week, meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other officials.
“I can report without being specific that there are efforts under way. They are serious and I completely agree with that fundamental premise — and so does General [David] Petraeus and so does President Obama — there is no military solution,” he told NPR. “And there are very active efforts now to seek an appropriate kind of political settlement.”
U.S. officials have acknowledged that some sort of political settlement must be reached with the Taliban — a loosely affiliated group of Islamic insurgents that control large swaths of territory in Afghanistan — in order to bring an end to the almost nine-year-long U.S. war there.
The beginning of settlement negotiations represents a significant development in terms of Western involvement there.
If you think this resembles Kerry and his mission to Paris after his Vietnam “tour”, you are wrong. This is with the full faith and credit of the US Government. And General Petraeus is behind him:
“It doesn’t mean that Mullah Omar is about to stroll down main street in Kabul any time soon and raise his hand and swear an oath on the constitution of Afghanistan,” Petraeus said, citing the Taliban leader.
“But every possibility, I think, that there can be low- and mid-level reintegration, and indeed, some fracturing of the senior leadership that could be really defined as reconciliation.”
Not to rain on anybody’s parade, but what the fuck? Have they forgotten that the Taliban were the ones who sponsored al Qaeda, gave them safe-haven, and refused to turn them over after 9-11? Obviously they have. They have also forgotten that the Taliban ran the most repressive and brutal regime on the Planet before we went in and removed them from power in retaliation for 9-11. I think they have forgotten 9-11 completely. Can you imagine Eisenhower negotiating with the Nazis to put Heinrich Himmler back in charge of Nazi Germany after World War Two? That is exactly analogous to what the Obama Administration, and, yes, General David Petraeus are doing. Oh, they don’t put it that bluntly, but any negotiated settlement that allows the Taliban to come back to power, no matter what taqqiya assurances they give about no longer helping al Qaeda, is a de facto surrender by the United States of America. This is the way it will be seen by the Taliban, surviving members of al Qaeda, by all of the many other Mohammedan terrorist organizations out there, and it is how it will be viewed by the Mohammedan world at large. It is not, perhaps, unconditional surrender on our part, but what conditions do we realistically think we are going to impose on the Taliban? They’ll play nice or we’ll do exactly what?
That is the strategy, I presume. It appears to be the coming policy of the Obama Administration. I wish I could say I am surprised, but I am not. Defeat in Afghanistan has been one of the things that Obama has always wanted to accomplish. It looks like he may be well on his way to accomplishing exactly that.
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