But I suppose in a war negotiation is always an option and not everyone in the Taliban is the same as everyone else.
Still, we should remember why there was a war. The Afghan people deserve support in their quest to be free.
James Morton
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There is evidence reported in the NYTs that Pres Karzai's brother is a known drug lord. The corruption is so bad that people are NOSTALGIC for the Taliban (recent radio doc on CBC dispatches). No occupying army as won a war in afghanistan. A British General today said we can't win militarily. Malaika Joya, female Afghan MP spoke at the NDP convention and has said that no other country can bring freedom and democracy to another country at the point of a gun.
Jack has merely been stating what should have been obvious for a very long time. This approach isn't working and we need a new one.
If you want freedom for Afghans you had better send a lot more troops, many hundreds of thousands in fact. The Taliban are just one bunch of Islamist fundamentalists, most of the old Northern Alliance warlords were no better. That's why they took control of the legislature and passed laws granting them amnesty for their war crimes. You could wipe the Taliban off the face of the earth tomorrow and it wouldn't affect the average Afghan's prospects for freedom, much less democracy. Read about Hekmatyar and Haqqani, Dostum and Gul Agha. And yes, anonymous is right. Hamid, brother of Karzai, is a drug lord. Ask yourself why Karzai hasn't moved on a single Afghan drug lord during his years in power. Not one key player has been slung into his prisons. The thing, James, speaks for itself.
sorry, I meant to write Ahmed, brother of Hamid,...
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