The Taliban is NOT our enemy....

This is of course according to Joe Biden........

[url]http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/19/white-house-stands-by-biden-statement-that-taliban-isnt-us-enemy/[/url]

Later,

Geo

Man I'm so thankful the smart people run our country. Here I thought that they were our enemy....I feel ashamed for jumping to such conclusions.:eek:

That statement is not near as ridiculous as a couple of paragraphs later in the story.

Start:
According to Reuters, U.S. officials are hopeful that 10 months of secret negotiations with Taliban insurgents will soon result in a breakthrough that will allow the U.S. to leave Afghanistan as scheduled by 2014 without leaving the country to the whims of the hardline group.

Reuters reported Sunday the deal the U.S. is considering would include a prisoner release of Taliban detainees in Guantanamo Bay in exchange for a renunciation of violence and international terrorism, part of reconciliation talks with the government headed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

The U.S. also would offer unequivocal support for establishing a Taliban office in an Islamic country that it could use as a diplomatic headquarters, Reuters reported, and would demand preconditions such as a renunciation of violence, a break with Al Qaeda and respect for the Afghan constitution. Carney said Monday that the U.S. has been clear that those conditions "would need to be met."
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If true, the Obama administration is loonier than I thought. I guess it'll be easier for Mr. Obama to close Gitmo after he returns the detainees to the Taliban. Secret negotiations? Giving them a diplomatic office in return for their promise to break with Al Qaeda and be nice? Are you freakin kidding me? Pure unadulterated idiocy, plain and simple.

Who will be our ambassador to the Taliban? Jane Fonda?

[QUOTE=Devils Horse;475564]That statement is not near as ridiculous as a couple of paragraphs later in the story.

Start:
According to Reuters, U.S. officials are hopeful that 10 months of secret negotiations with Taliban insurgents will soon result in a breakthrough that will allow the U.S. to leave Afghanistan as scheduled by 2014 without leaving the country to the whims of the hardline group.

Reuters reported Sunday the deal the U.S. is considering would include a prisoner release of Taliban detainees in Guantanamo Bay in exchange for a renunciation of violence and international terrorism, part of reconciliation talks with the government headed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

The U.S. also would offer unequivocal support for establishing a Taliban office in an Islamic country that it could use as a diplomatic headquarters, Reuters reported, and would demand preconditions such as a renunciation of violence, a break with Al Qaeda and respect for the Afghan constitution. Carney said Monday that the U.S. has been clear that those conditions "would need to be met."
End

If true, the Obama administration is loonier than I thought. I guess it'll be easier for Mr. Obama to close Gitmo after he returns the detainees to the Taliban. Secret negotiations? Giving them a diplomatic office in return for their promise to break with Al Qaeda and be nice? Are you freakin kidding me? Pure unadulterated idiocy, plain and simple.

Who will be our ambassador to the Taliban? Jane Fonda?[/QUOTE]

YEP.........Hitler wasn't our enemy either.

Later,

Geo

Yup, pure idiocy, and it illustrates in stark detail why we shouldn't be trying to settle that age-old civil war in Afghanistan - we have a choice between supporting Al-Quaeda or the Taliban. We're out of Iraq, now we need to get out of Afghanistan.

I think we ought get out and let them beat each other to death if they want to. If they threaten neighbors "wing it and sling it", no ground troops.

[QUOTE=DJD;475555]Man I'm so thankful the smart people run our country. Here I thought that they were our enemy....I feel ashamed for jumping to such conclusions.:eek:[/QUOTE]

Am I the only one who thinks that Joe Biden should have been put out to pasture years ago? He's like Bush Jr., never engage the brain, just open mouth and let noise roll out.

You wrote"Who will be our ambassador to the Taliban? Jane Fonda?" LOL!!!!!!!!!!!