'Grand Peace Council' in Afghanistan

[bigtree]

January 20, 2010

Afghan plan to lure Taliban fighters away from insurgency

KABUL (AP) -- Afghanistan and its international partners have come up with broad outlines of a plan to lure Taliban fighters away from the insurgency.

While details should be finalized by spring, the plan includes economic incentives and help for insurgents to rejoin Afghan society.

The proposal by the Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board also calls for a Grand Peace Council. The group would include representatives of the Taliban and other insurgent groups willing to renounce violence. The council would discuss the future of the nation ravaged by decades of war.

The government action plan will be presented at a January 28th international conference in London.


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[Mari333]

1. who the hell is the Grand Peace Council and whose money will be used to bribe

people away from being insurgents?
my god, this is a clusterck of epic proportions.

[Robb]

2. God forbid you look it up.

No, no, call it a "clusterfuck of epic proportions" with admittedly ZERO understanding of the issue. God, I love DU.

Edited to add: start here: http://www.ands.gov.af/

[Mari333]

4. I trust nothing as long as our corporate boots are on the ground over there

and it is a clusterfck. the whole damnable occupation.

[Robb]

6. So you're choosing to remain uninformed, one-dimensional and reactionary?

...Can I expect this kind of in-depth analysis on every issue, or just Afghanistan?

[Mari333]

7. Our involvement in occupying other countries must end

period. Until then, anything that is done is merely a whitewash. this occupation is a corporate occupation, and has nothing to do with anything more then occupying lands for profit.
Our involvement must end, this is not our country.

[Robb]

8. All well and good. You should understand, then,

...that the "Peace and Reintegration Programme" is a creation of the Afghan government. Today's announcement by the JCMB (which is chaired by Afghanistan's minister of finance and a representative of the UN president) was an endorsement of the program, not its inception. I would refer you to UNAMA white papers, but I don't expect you would read them.

[Mari333]

9. great, and we installed Karzai as our puppet

believe me, US policy runs Karzai.

[Robb]

10. Sigh.

This is part of the UN's policy of increasingly going AROUND Karzai.

At the behest of the Obama administration, notably. You're a little behind on the very interesting politics taking place.

But please, don't let not knowing what's going on stop you from being so earnest in your proclamations. Sometime you should read up, though. It's good stuff.

[bigtree]

3. looks like it will be a proposal for the countries who assemble in London

Call it a 'bribe' if you want . . . I think Afghans will appreciate whatever opportunity to provide for themselves that anyone will offer (including the militarized resistance).

[FiveGoodMen]

5. 'Carpet of gold or carpet of bombs'

Why is that phrase running through my head?