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Title: Taliban Talks
Post by: JC5123 on January 20, 2012, 03:10:30 PM
I was just reading an article about the peace talks that we are having with the Taliban. Just one question:
When did it become United States policy to negotiate with terrorists?
Title: Re: Taliban Talks
Post by: Big Frank on January 20, 2012, 03:14:26 PM
2009.
Title: Re: Taliban Talks
Post by: twyacht on January 20, 2012, 03:16:24 PM
Right around January 2009...

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Title: Re: Taliban Talks
Post by: BAC on January 20, 2012, 03:23:26 PM
But I thought WE were the terrorists.
Title: Re: Taliban Talks
Post by: Frosty on January 23, 2012, 03:29:03 PM
About the same time as the world apology tour was :'(
Title: Re: Taliban Talks
Post by: tombogan03884 on January 23, 2012, 06:21:20 PM
There eventually have to be talks with the Taliban.
Even though the group itself is a creation of Pakistani ISI, they represent the largest single ethnic group in Afghanistan, which incidentally, has always supplied the nations leadership, such as it is.
The only options are to get them to work with the current Govt. or be prepared to exterminate 1/4 of Afghanistans population and 1/3 of Pakistan's.
Title: Re: Taliban Talks
Post by: CJS3 on January 23, 2012, 08:58:07 PM
I was just reading an article about the peace talks that we are having with the Taliban. Just one question:
When did it become United States policy to negotiate with terrorists?

When they won.
Title: Re: Taliban Talks
Post by: tombogan03884 on January 23, 2012, 09:18:29 PM
I was just reading an article about the peace talks that we are having with the Taliban. Just one question:
When did it become United States policy to negotiate with terrorists?

Al queda are terrorists, they launch attacks against civilians all over the world.
The Taliban are resisting a foreign military and have never struck outside Afghanistan and Pakistan .
They are no more terrorists than you would be if the UN occupied your home.
Title: Re: Taliban Talks
Post by: kmitch200 on January 24, 2012, 12:43:46 AM
Under the latest taliban rule over Afghanistan, the kindest thing we could have done for the population was blanket the area with thermonuclear mushroom clouds.