Karzai urges US to back talks with Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar

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http://www.timeslive.co.za/news/world/article222363.ece

Dec 6, 2009 7:30 PM | By Sapa-AFP

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged the United States to back talks with Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, saying there was an "urgent need" for a negotiated approach to the conflict.

"Alone, we can't do it," Karzai said in an interview on CNN with Christiane Amanpour.


His comments came as US Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton played down the prospects of negotiations with the Taliban, particularly with Mullah Omar.


Karzai acknowledged there was no support from his US partners for talks with Omar but reaffirmed his longstanding view that it would be useful to engage the Taliban leader in negotiations.

[tekisui]

1. What a cluster fuck.

[leftstreet]

2. Gates and Clinton 'played down the prospects of negotiations'

wtf?

[Arctic Dave]

3. WTF indeed.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Today we call them taliban, tomorrow they may be called

terrorists. I love how the scenery changes as the agenda does.... clusterfuck doesn't even cover it.

[Cleita]

5. I remember before we invaded Afghanistan that a few journalists were

able to interview him and the interviews were actually broadcast before our commercial communications were shut down with a lot of cheerleading about freedom and evil. He seemed like a very young person to begin with back then. But, he said that it was time for Americans to "forget" about the bombing of the WTC on 9/11/2001. That it was over with. I felt the massive ignorance of this person and that he didn't realize what had really happened in his isolated nation. As it turned out, he offered to turn Osama bin Laden over to us when he realized we meant business but because he couldn't meet some arbitrary time line set up by the Bush administration, it was ignored and we went to war.

In the meantime, Omar escaped, has been hidden and maybe is much wiser these many years later. Karzai seems to be afraid of him. I wouldn't throw him out with the bath water right now.

[sabrina 1]

6. He offered to turn over Bin Laden if the US could provide

evidence that he was responsible for the attacks on 9/11. George Bush wasn't interested in proof or evidence, or even Bin Laden. He was interested in the oil pipe-line and establishing bases in that region so that the US could win the race to the world's last oil reserves. Omar wasn't naive, he knew what the interests of the US were in his country.

The Taliban had been in the US during the summer of 2001, being wined and dined in the hopes that they would agree to Karzai's old oil Company, Unocal, building their long-dreamed-of pipe-line there. The Taliban said 'no' and the US threatened them with a 'carpet of bombs' when they could have chosen a 'carpet of gold'. Robert Sheer was writing about all of this, long before 9/11.

Obama isn't interested in 'terror' either. He's just the current sales person for the MIC and the Globalists who have taken over this country. We have bases in Uzbekistan, in Azerbaijan and all around the region. We are never leaving that area as long as there is oil for the oil cartels to profit from. And wars are profitable too.

And that is the reason why we are not leading the world in the development of alternative energy. This is the equivalent of a gold rush. Everyone is headed for the Caspian Sea and we can't go through Iran, which is one reason why we hate them. So Afghanistan is the route we are taking.

We got what we wanted in Iraq, the signing over by the puppet government of over 80% of Iraq's oil for foreign investment. Peace will never come to that country unless we buy off the bad guys, which we always do.

I just wish they'd stop insulting our intelligence and simply tell the truth since most people know it anyhow.