US Silent About Taliban Guarantee Offer on al Qaeda

[StarfarerBill]

Source: Inter Press Service

"WASHINGTON - The Barack Obama administration is refusing to acknowledge an offer by the leadership of the Taliban in early December to give "legal guarantees" that it will not allow Afghanistan to be used for attacks on other countries."

Read more: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/16

[dipsydoodle]

1. The Taliban

could agree to convert to the Jewish faith as well and it wouldn't make 10c of differnce.

Just gotta keep that war machine going.

Change you can..................:boring:

[pberq]

2. Thanks for posting that article -

they don't want a negotiated solution - it wouldn't make any money for the MIC

[Jefferson23]

3. Very interesting, K&R and bookmarked.

[YouTakeTheSkyway]

4. And the reason we should trust them is...?

Because, let's face it, they have a history of dicking people around on this issue.

[Turborama]

5. Yep

Here's a list to start with: http://www.rawa.org/lies.htm

[StarfarerBill]

8. The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan...

know the situation there better than we do, and they want us to stop our bloody counterinsurgency and get out of their country.

Here's some pieces to give you an idea of how they feel about their liberators:

http://www.rawa.org/rawa/2009/10/31/liberation-lie-afghan-women-truth-on-the-ground.html

http://www.rawa.org/rawa/2009/12/03/video-a-voice-from-rawa-zoya-on-afghanistan.html

http://www.rawa.org/rawa/2009/12/03/rawa-representative-challenges-u-s-narrative.html

http://www.rawa.org/rawa/2009/11/11/afghan-women-speak-out-against-u-s-occupation.html

http://www.rawa.org/rawa/2009/10/19/us-should-leave-afghan-woman-says.html

There's lots more here: http://www.rawa.org/media.htm

The Afghan people know what's best for themselves. We can help them, but not with military might.

[StarfarerBill]

6. Because they're going to still be there after we leave,

and we should help the Afghan people end the Taliban's brutality with means other than an escalated, prolonged insurgency. Diplomacy is one of the few options we have to effect that.

[TexasObserver]

7. Recommend