Also see: No Talking to Taliban
Anyhow, let's see what corn kernels I can pick out before the whole article devolves into a toilet treasure again.
Btw, who invented"Al-CIA-Duh? Do you know?
"Splintered Taliban forces thwart Afghan peace; But analysts see widespread desire for a settlement" by Pamela Constable, Washington Post | April 5, 2009
KABUL, Afghanistan - When voter registration stations opened in southern Afghanistan several months ago, officials feared they would be attacked by Taliban fighters who control much of the region. Instead, the process went smoothly and not a shot was fired. There were even reports of local Taliban members encouraging people to register and support them at the polls in August.
Who are the TALIBAN anyway?
"Something of a catchall term for loosely affiliated insurgents without a singular command structure. Often, the Afghan government favors the phrase 'enemies of the state' (New York Times July 24, 2007)."
"The Taliban is growing and creating new alliances not because its sectarian religious practices have become popular, but because it is the only available umbrella for national liberation," says Pakistani historian and political commentator Tariq Ali. "As the British and the Soviets discovered to their cost in the preceding two centuries, Afghans never like being occupied."
Also see: Afghanistan's Other Government
And today, readers?
"More and more, people here look back to the era of harsh Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001, describing it as a time of security and peace."
Oh, oh, oh!!!! I'm so offended by the AmeriKan MSM and its bullshit!
And HERE IT COMES!!!!!
But when a Taliban commander in Wardak Province accepted an offer of reconciliation last month from the government, which is trying to persuade "moderate Taliban" fighters to lay down their weapons and participate in the elections, he was shot dead three days later. Officials said the order to kill him came from Taliban authorities.
These accounts demonstrate the confusing, contradictory forces at work as the government in Kabul, with encouragement from the United Nations and the Obama administration, attempts to find a peaceful way out of a conflict that has taken thousands of lives since 2001, involved tens of thousands of foreign troops, and become entangled in a wider, increasingly deadly regional campaign for Islamist control.
Yeah, the "Al-CIA-Duh" factor accounts for the CONTRADICTIONS and CONFUSION, while SENDING MORE TROOPS is a way to find a "peaceful way out," huh?
Need I comment further about the LYING WAR PROPAGANDA?
According to experts and officials here, including several Afghans who served in the Taliban government of 1996 to 2001, there is a widespread desire among Afghan Taliban fighters to seek a settlement that would end intervention by NATO forces on one side and foreign Islamists, including Al Qaeda, on the other.
But on Wednesday, a coordinated attack by suicide bombers on a government complex in the southern city of Kandahar underscored the sustained level of insurgent violence that continues to plague Afghanistan. In the midday attack, which killed 14 people, three bombers disguised as police officers stormed the compound after a fourth detonated a truck outside the gates.
Yeah, the TIMING on that was AWFULLY STRANGE, no (cui bono)?
Some 80 fighters have been killed in clashes with Afghan and NATO forces in four days....
But Mulsim lives aren't that important to the Muslim-hating, war-promoting jewsmedia of AmeriKa! That's why it gets ONE SENTENCE in a WEEK!!!
80 INNOCENT SOULS LOST no matter what you think of them. 9/11 an INSIDE JOB!!!!
The Afghan government has also received strong support for peace talks from the Obama administration, which fears being dragged into an open-ended war.
Have you HAD ENOUGH WAR LIES and CRAP from the Zionist media yet?
I mean, they are REALLY NOT DOING THEMSELVES ANY FAVORS with this ABOMINABLE, ATROCIOUS, and OBVIOUS LYING here!!!!!!!
Last week, Karzai and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton discussed the issue at a conference in The Hague, where Clinton said moderate Taliban insurgents should be offered "an honorable form of reconciliation" if they abandon their armed fight and break ties with Al Qaeda.
Related: Hillary Clinton's Contemptible Quotes
But Zabiullah Mujahid, Taliban spokesman, rejected the offer Wednesday, calling it a "lunatic idea," according to the Reuters news agency. There is strong resistance to negotiations among some Taliban leaders and their powerful allies abroad, including groups in Pakistan and in Persian Gulf nations.
Yes, OUR TERRORIST-FUNDING FRIENDS the SAUDIS will REMAIN ANONYMOUS!!!!
One ultmately has to wonder what the REAL RELATIONSHIP is between the House of Saud and the NaZionist government of Israel for their COVER-UP PAPERS to Bbe serving such a purpose.
Saudis fund and supply the "terrorists" and the USraelis attempt to carry the PNAC Plan to fruition?
The experts and officials said this poses enormous obstacles to a settlement.
Because there is not meant to be one.
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Had enough breakfast fooleys, 'murka?
No?
Here's a SECOND HELPING for you!!!
"Afghan reaction mixed on new war strategy" by Robert Burns, Associated Press | April 7, 2009
KABUL, Afghanistan - Two US envoys trying to reassure Afghan leaders about the Obama administration's new war strategy yesterday heard a former Taliban mullah offer stark warnings about prospects for defeating the Taliban on the battlefield.
"No problem in Afghanistan can be solved by fighting," the mullah, speaking through an interpreter, told veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during their fact-finding tour.
No problem anywhere can be solved that way.
Urging the Afghan government to grant a general amnesty for all insurgents, the mullah warned, "don't tell the Taliban to lay down their weapons or to surrender. They will never do that."
Holbrooke and Mullen heard a mix of approval and concern about the new American war strategy as they held a daylong series of talks with Afghan government, civic, religious, and tribal leaders. Holbrooke said the purpose of the tour was to communicate to Afghans what the new approach is about, as well as soliciting their advice and opinions.
So the SHIT-SELLING WAR PROMOTION is about to begin. Get your waders on, readers!
Reporters traveling with Holbrooke and Mullen were allowed to observe their meetings on condition that the Afghan participants not be identified in order to protect them from Taliban retribution. The US backs reconciliation efforts led by the Afghan government of Hamid Karzai, but it has not favored accommodating the most senior Taliban leaders such as supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, believed to be holed up in the Pakistani city of Quetta.
With insurgent violence on the rise, Mullen and Holbrooke sought to reassure Afghans at every stop that the Obama administration is putting new diplomatic energy and focus, as well as more troops and money, into the war effort. The response from the Afghans appeared generally positive, although some were outspoken in their suspicions of the US military's new tack.
Look at the MSM put perfume on a turd hey!!!!
In his opening remarks to Holbrooke, the most senior mullah on the Ulema Council - the highest religious authority in Afghanistan - said that Afghans are pleased that the United States has adopted a new war strategy. And he said the religious leaders have resisted demands by the Taliban to issue decrees against the Americans, whom the Taliban view as occupiers.
"Our answer to them was that the Russians were invaders and occupiers," the mullah said, referring to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, which led to years of occupation that ended after US-armed resistance forces fought a bloody insurgency. "The US and NATO are here to help us."
Oh, Lord, I think I'm going to be sick!!!
They jewsmedia MUST BE MAKING THIS UP!!!!!!!
The mullah and other Afghans who met with Holbrooke and Mullen were not shy about criticizing the American efforts. "We also have some complaints against you," the senior mullah said, focusing on the failure to stop the infiltration into Afghanistan from neighboring Pakistan of Taliban and other insurgent elements.
Stop shoveling so much shit so fast, MSM! You'll hurt yourself!!!
Holbrooke acknowledged the shortcomings, saying he and Mullen intended to make the lack of border security a major topic of discussion when they meet with Pakistani officials in Islamabad today.
Pfffft! That's a CUI BONO SOFTBALL if the Taliban guy even exists!
Anybody check his accent?
The Americans also heard repeated criticism of the periodic US attacks that inadvertently kill Afghan civilians. They expressed regret at the loss of innocent lives and pledged to redouble efforts to minimize the mistakes, which they also described as unavoidable in war....
Yeah, EVEN THOUGH WE KNOW THEY ARE there we INADVERTENTLY DROP BOMBS and MISSILES on their heads!!!
You understand where I'm coming from now, right, readers?
