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2009-12-28 Afghanistan

Guttenberg calls for Taliban inclusion in Afghan govt.

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Posted by Fred 2009-12-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top
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#1 ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > PAKISTAN TALIBAN SAY [thousands = 000's] OF FIGHTERS GOING TO AFGHANISTAN, to help Afghan Taliban. US claims no significant movement of Fighters seen or detected at borders.

* SAME > [Regional Trade]PLAN TO PAKISTAN TRANSIT CORRIDOR FOR CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-12-28 02:22|| 2009-12-28 02:22|| Front Page Top

#2 It was a bad mistake at the onset to try and salvage anything about Afghanistan. It is like a soft rubber ox-cart with triangular wheels. No part works or is right for the job, nor can be repaired. The whole thing must be replaced.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-12-28 08:16|| 2009-12-28 08:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg not only urged inclusion of moderate Taliban members in the Afghan government,..

Wonder if the Minister would allow the revival of Neo-Nazis in the old country again? Moderate ones of course. /rhet question

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-12-28 08:34|| 2009-12-28 08:34|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't see a problem with the return of individual Talibs to their communities in a civilian capacity -- the Prodigal Son scenario. But let them run for election like everyone else, not be given power and influence just for the sake of their pretty faces.

Posted by trailing wife 2009-12-28 09:12|| 2009-12-28 09:12|| Front Page Top

#5 It was a bad mistake at the onset to try and salvage anything about Afghanistan.

Afghanistan had a government when we threw the Talibs out. Remember that they were recognized in only three counties: Pak, Soddy Arabia, and the UAE. Their UN representation and such embassies as Afghanistan maintained were accredited to the Rabbani government.

The mistake was in trying to set up a government that "included" the Pashtuns, who're incapable of governing themselves, much less their more civilized Dari, Uzbek, and Tadjik speaking betters.

Posted by Fred 2009-12-28 10:28|| 2009-12-28 10:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe the mistake was trying to set up a government rather than impose one.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-12-28 10:30|| 2009-12-28 10:30|| Front Page Top

#7 TOPIX > US STRATEGY TO END AL QAEDA WAR USHERS IN 2010 FRAUGHT WITH PERILS.

* SAME > TALIBAN INSURGENCY EXPANDING IN AGHANISTAN, CREATES GOVERNMENT-IN-WAITING; + NATO OFFICIAL: TALIBAN EXPANDING INFLUENCE ALL ACROSS AFGHANISTAN, + TIME RUNNING OUT FOR US SURGE STRATEGY TO PROVE MERITS.

VIETNAM WAR = AFPAK > ultimately, the premier enemy method is NOT to militarily defeat the US on the battlefield, BUT TO FRUSTRATE + OUTLAST THEM [US political will = PCorrect Chickenhawks/
ChickenCritters in the Fed-Govt].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-12-28 21:34|| 2009-12-28 21:34|| Front Page Top

#8 OSAMA + AYMAN + MULLAH OMAR, etal. = [salivating/drooling] HOMER SIMPSON = HMMMMMMM, CHICKEN .....CCCHHHIIIICCCKKKENNNN.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-12-28 21:37|| 2009-12-28 21:37|| Front Page Top

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