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Unreal… Obama Administration Steps Up Surrender Meetings With the Taliban

On Wednesday the Taliban blew up 3 NATO soldiers in Afghanistan.

On Thursday the Taliban blew up 10 Afghan soldiers with a roadside bomb.

So how does the Obama Adminstration respond to the continued attacks by the Taliban?

They step up surrender talks.

JWF had the story:

The Obama administration hopes to restore momentum in the spring to U.S. talks with the Taliban insurgency that had reached a critical point before falling apart this month because of objections from Afghan President Hamid Karzai,U.S. and Afghan officials said.

One goal of renewed talks with the insurgents would be to identify cease-fire zones that could be used as a steppingstone toward a full peace agreement that stops most fighting, a senior administration official told The Associated Press—a goal that remains far out of reach.

U.S. officials from the State Department and White House plan to continue a series of secret meetings with Taliban representatives in Europe and the Persian Gulf region next year, assuming a small group of Taliban emissaries the U.S. considers legitimate remains willing, two officials said.

The U.S. officials spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the sensitive and precarious U.S. outreach to the Taliban leadership.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/12/unreal-obama-administration-steps-up-surrender-meetings-with-the-taliban/

The Taliban “Per Se Is Not Our Enemy”

Washington’s desire to open the Taliban office coincides with pressure on military officials in Kabul to maintain a consistent drawdown of U.S. troops and transition to a training mission.

The U.S. will have 68,000 troops in Afghanistan by the fall, and senior military officials here are trying to maintain that number for another year. But in a speech in June, President Obama used the term “steady drawdown” when outlining the speed with which U.S. troops will come home. If there is progress toward peace, two NATO officials said it will be easier for Washington to withstand military requests to keep as many troops in Afghanistan for as long as possible.

Washington’s desire to reconcile was never more apparent than in a recent interview by Vice President Joe Biden with Newsweek. The Taliban is, “per se, not our enemy. That’s critical,” he said. “There is not a single statement that the president has ever made in any of our policy assertions that the Taliban is our enemy because it threatens U.S. interests.”

The goal in Afghanistan, Biden continued, was restricted to diminishing al Qaeda, strengthening the Afghan government, “and at the same time try to get the Taliban to move in the direction to see to it that they, through reconciliation, commit not to be engaged with al Qaeda or any other organization that they would harbor to do damage to us and our allies.”

Biden’s statement went down poorly in Afghanistan, where Taliban bombs continue to kill thousands of Afghan citizens.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/12/taliban-to-open-office-as-us-looks-for-afghan-political-solution/

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Sooner or later we will come to the same conclusion the USSR came to about Afghanistan. You can't win there. Period. It's a fcuked up backasswards place and it'll continue to be that way. The sooner we wake up to that reality and get the ** out of there, the better. The sooner we cut our losses, the fewer losses there will be. We can continue for another 10 years and find us in the same place we are in today. Only with more Americans having lost their lives for nothing and with more debt attributable to this nonsense. It's just that simple. I don't care what anyone calls it. I call it common sense. Just get out of that shithole. And get out now!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Sooner or later we will come to the same conclusion the USSR came to about Afghanistan. You can't win there. Period. It's a fcuked up backasswards place and it'll continue to be that way. The sooner we wake up to that reality and get the ** out of there, the better. The sooner we cut our losses, the fewer losses there will be. We can continue for another 10 years and find us in the same place we are in today. Only with more Americans having lost their lives for nothing and with more debt attributable to this nonsense. It's just that simple. I don't care what anyone calls it. I call it common sense. Just get out of that shithole. And get out now!

Yeah, once we get the sh*t shot out of us with the stuff we gave them to shoot the Soviets!

I say...offer the opium farmers three times the Taliban rate for their opium, sell some of it for medicinal use, deep six the rest of it and make all the farmers friends of ours...for less than it costs to keep soldiers there.

The Taliban loses their funding, we gain the friendship (hearts and minds...sounds familiar) of people that live there...

OR

Just screw it, and come home.

what good is our military if we cannnot bomb them back to the stone age? That would actually be an improvement.

Edited December 31, 2011 by Gary and Alla