President Obama, what is a Taliban Moderate?
I came across this news story that said according to President Obama:
Is it someone who let men trim their beards? Or let women read in the dark? Or let children name their dolls Mohhamed (intentional mis-spelling, pronounce however you'd like)
The Taliban is a repressive regime that controlled every modicum of freedom in Afghanistan. So does being a Taliban moderate mean being not so repressive? And how repressive will President Obama be comfortable with?
The moderates in Iraq were nationalists and hated Al-Qaeda. The Taliban and Al-Qaeda are practically the same thing in Afghanistan. They are terrorists.
Whatever happened to not negotiating with terrorists?
I just don't understand President Obama's logic. President Obama was opposed to reaching out to moderates in Iraq and opposed to the surge. He wanted to pull out immediately because in the estimation of his Democratic colleagues including Harry Reid; "this war is lost."
Now President Obama is going to withdraw in 18 months and leave 50,000 troops in iraq (not exactly the withdrawal he campaigned on).
Well if "Afghanistan is more complicated," how is the Iraq strategy going to work in Afghanistan (with 17,000 more troops) when he didn't believe it would work in Iraq and Afghanistan is completely different by most opinions. And now he's said that we're losing in Afghanistan.
And where in the world are we going find these Moderate Taliban?
Probably in the same cave were going to find the TRILLIONS of dollars for Obama's social(ist) agenda. But that's for a different discussion.
There may be opportunities to reach out to moderates in the Taliban, but the situation in Afghanistan is more complicated than the challenges the American military faced in IraqSo I have to ask, what exactly is a moderate member of the Taliban?
Is it someone who let men trim their beards? Or let women read in the dark? Or let children name their dolls Mohhamed (intentional mis-spelling, pronounce however you'd like)
The Taliban is a repressive regime that controlled every modicum of freedom in Afghanistan. So does being a Taliban moderate mean being not so repressive? And how repressive will President Obama be comfortable with?
The moderates in Iraq were nationalists and hated Al-Qaeda. The Taliban and Al-Qaeda are practically the same thing in Afghanistan. They are terrorists.
Whatever happened to not negotiating with terrorists?
I just don't understand President Obama's logic. President Obama was opposed to reaching out to moderates in Iraq and opposed to the surge. He wanted to pull out immediately because in the estimation of his Democratic colleagues including Harry Reid; "this war is lost."
Now President Obama is going to withdraw in 18 months and leave 50,000 troops in iraq (not exactly the withdrawal he campaigned on).
Well if "Afghanistan is more complicated," how is the Iraq strategy going to work in Afghanistan (with 17,000 more troops) when he didn't believe it would work in Iraq and Afghanistan is completely different by most opinions. And now he's said that we're losing in Afghanistan.
And where in the world are we going find these Moderate Taliban?
Probably in the same cave were going to find the TRILLIONS of dollars for Obama's social(ist) agenda. But that's for a different discussion.
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