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U.S. Mum Over Reported Taliban Office in Qatar - ( DO WE NOW ENDORSE SAVAGES?)
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#1 Posted: Mon, Sep 12 2011, 8:41 PM EST
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U.S. Mum Over Reported Taliban Office in Qatar
Published September 12, 2011
| FoxNews.com


The Obama administration kept tight-lipped Monday following reports that the United States had endorsed a plan for the Taliban to open a political office in Qatar by the end of the year.
The Times of London reported Monday that the U.S. is hoping the new office will help move along talks to reconcile insurgents with the government in Kabul. The move comes as the United States looks to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Monday she would not comment "on those specific reports," while restating the U.S. position on Afghanistan's negotiations with Taliban fighters to disarm, a process known as reconciliation.

"We favor an Afghan-led process. This Afghan-led process has many facets. But from a U.S. perspective we have certain red lines," she said. "Anybody reconciled has to accept the Afghan constitution, has to renounce violence, drop weapons and support human rights in keeping with international standards."
Asked why the department would not comment on the reported Taliban office, she said, "we don't want to get ahead of an Afghan-led process."
Though the U.S. has previously opened the door to Taliban reconciliation, the network continues to fuel unrest and violence in Afghanistan. In a brazen attack over the weekend, a truck bomb wounded dozens of American soldiers and killed five Afghans in the Wardak province. The Taliban claimed responsibility, though the Pentagon said the affiliated Haqqani network was behind the attack.


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ZRX1200 Offline
#2 Posted: Mon, Sep 12 2011, 9:28 PM EST
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Well he is a mooselahm.
donutboy2000 Offline
#3 Posted: Tue, Sep 13 2011, 12:28 AM EST
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Perhaps Obama is just courting the Taliban voters.
ZRX1200 Offline
#4 Posted: Tue, Sep 13 2011, 12:32 AM EST
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Amnesty for all!
DrMaddVibe Offline
#5 Posted: Tue, Sep 13 2011, 6:01 AM EST
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The Conscience Of A Liberal - Paul Krugman

September 11, 2011, 8:41 AM

The Years of Shame

Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?

Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.

What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.

A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?

The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.

I’m not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons.
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