Taliban say U.S. reconciliation offer "lunatic"

[Coventina]

Source: Reuters

KABUL, April 1 (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents rejected on Wednesday a U.S. offer of "honourable reconciliation" as a "lunatic idea" and said the withdrawal of foreign troops was the only way to end the war in Afghanistan.

With the Afghan conflict now in its eighth year, NATO-led forces and the Taliban are locked in a bloody stalemate with violence set to rise further this year as more U.S. troops arrive and seek to contain the insurgency ahead of August elections.

President Barack Obama is redoubling U.S. efforts with more troops, more diplomatic effort and more economic assistance, but he has also already spoken of the need for an "exit strategy".

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an international conference on Afghanistan on Tuesday that those members of the Taliban who abandoned extremism must be granted an "honourable form of reconciliation".


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSISL492329

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Good luck finding those non-extremist Taliban, Hillary!

[Turbineguy]

1. Well, they would wouldn't they.

Now we know.

Maybe we can make a deal with them. As long as they promise to just murder Afghanis, they can have the place.

We usually have no problems with regimes who just kill their own people.

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. Amazing how the Afghanis survived all these centuries without the USA's killing machine

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All these bombs and bullets(many laced with depleted uranium) will improve their lifestyle.

Why can't they see that?

silly Easterners . .

[cali]

18. you don't know much about the history of Afghanistan, do you?

And anyone that thinks the Taliban gives a flying fuck about the welfare of Afghanis, particularly non Pashtuns and women, is utterly mistaken.

[Wizard777]

3. Well they can't say we didn't offer. Write "Dumbasses give us Bin Laden NOW!" Then fire it at them.

[Mari333]

4. bring all the troops home obama and get the hell out of there

vietnam , take 2.

[truebrit71]

5. Not an option.

The Taliban are not far from toppling the Pakistan govt and getting their hands on nukes...simply walking out is not an option at this point...

[Mari333]

6. let the pakistanis take care of it then

the longer we are there the worse it will get. out now.

[ohio2007]

8. they've been doing a great just "negotiating" peace deals so far.....

nt

[truebrit71]

14. The reason things are so tenous NOW is because we have been letting Pakistan "take care of it"...

...and the end-result is unacceptable...regionally and globally...

[ConcernedCanuk]

9. China and Russia can handle India and Pakistan

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The USA is NOT the World police, but they sure act like it.

USA should get back to their own side of the Globe,

I hear there are problems in the USA too . . .

"Banksters" comes to mind . . .

[Coventina]

11. Please explain how China and Russia are going to handle India & Pakistan

I can't wait to hear this one!

[ben_jenne]

10. But wait!

I thought the argument was that if "we" have nukes what give us the right to tell anyone else they can't? How are one governments actions superior to anothers?

[Mari333]

12. shh you are making too much sense

welcome to DU btw

[ConcernedCanuk]

13. USA are the good guys doncha know? - don't let all those invasions and bombings

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of other peoples' sovereign nations fool ya.

The USA is SAVING lives by killing all them other people.

Only the "good" guys are allowed to have all these killing machines.

That would be the United States of America. THEY TOLD US SO!!

Bombs and bullets, that's how you spread democracy . . .


(sigh)

[Tim01]

15. I think the argument is sort of like us being the police.

If they have nukes the crazy bastards might use them just because they want to nuke somebody. We don't want that, so we stop them.

[ben_jenne]

17. Nobody is that "crazy"

Name just one government that has ever used nukes against another.

[aquart]

19. Oh, wait.

The point of nukes is not to use them, but to have the potential to use them. They're a poison pill against invasion, as it were.

Iraq had no nuclear weapons and we overran it. Same with Afghanistan. Iran is moving as fast as it can to make itself invulnerable, not to tiny Israel which is basically a flea to them, but to another US move on the Caspian Basin oil. Bush was damned clear that he wanted Iraq, Iran, and Syria under his control. NOTHING stopped him from invading Iraq. Right now, finances and a Democratic president are hindering the Grand Insane Plan of the Oil Entities, but that could change in a heartbeat.

Petraeus is making Israel the boogeyman here, but it isn't Israel that has Iran scared shitless, it's the US which murdered Iraq in the name of liberty.

[MellowDem]

20. the Taliban isn't a government... nt

[ben_jenne]

21. They were certainly the government of

Afghanistan for most of the 90's. The Taliban weren't recognized as such by most nations however they were given recognition by of all countries Pakistan.

[MellowDem]

22. The Taliban still are not a government...

they never controlled all of Afghanistan. If anything, they're a sect.

[bottomtheweaver]

25. Let's see, does Hiroshima ring a bell?

Yes, we alone are that crazy, and the rest of the world is well aware of it.

[fascisthunter]

26. you nailed it... answer: the USA is the ONLY country to use nukes on another

and yet our asshole polticians act like Greek gods from on top of mount olympus... you know what? America is fucking nuts.

[bottomtheweaver]

23. And that's our problem why exactly?

As if it were even true.

[mix]

28. that's an exaggeration n/t

[ohio2007]

7. just a sound byte picked up by the MSM from drone bait. nt

[knixphan]

16. If only we had a time machine...

And could install the Obama admin on 9/12/01...

[bottomtheweaver]

24. Tough customers.

But then they've seen this movie before.

[Blandocyte]

27. Held power hungry a-holes off for centuries

like they're gonna stop now?