Sen. Frist: Bring Taliban Into Gov’t
The Senate majority leader, having concluded that we can't win a guerrilla war in Afghanistan, wants to invite the Taliban and its supporters back into the government So, all that talk about bringing democracy and freedom to Afghanistan screw it, huh? Let's just give the place back to the harborers of the 9/11 attackers?.We’re quoting directly from the AP, lest you think we’re joking. “U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan guerrilla war can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Taliban and their supporters into the Afghan government.”
So, all that talk about bringing democracy and freedom to Afghanistan … screw it, huh? Let’s just give the place back to the harborers of the 9/11 attackers?
WAIT BEFORE YOU GO...AP:
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan guerrilla war can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Taliban and their supporters into the Afghan government.
The Tennessee Republican said he had learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support to be defeated by military means.
“You need to bring them into a more transparent type of government,” Frist said during a brief visit to a U.S. and Romanian military base in the southern Taliban stronghold of Qalat. “And if that’s accomplished we’ll be successful.”
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