Forhandlinger med Taliban?

[Kubin]

Må Taliban tas inn i varmen? :

 

"WASHINGTON: Alarm bells are going off in the US political and strategic community over the Bush administration's weighing the option of bringing Taliban back into the power equation in Afghanistan.

 

First signs of impending overtures to Taliban from Washington came last month when Bush and his aides gingerly supported Pakistan’s agreement with Taliban in the Waziristan province, a deal which was panned in strategic circles as a sell-out to extremists at the expense of US and NATO ground troops in Afghanistan.

 

Undeterred by the criticism, the Bush subsequently persuaded Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who is vehemently opposed to the deal, to 'wait and see' how the Pakistani deal works.

 

Now comes advice from Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist that the Bush administration should consider bringing Taliban back into the power equation in Kabul.

 

Arguing that Taliban fighters were "too numerous and too popular" to be defeated, Frist told reporters after a visit to Afghanistan last weekend that "You need to bring them (Taliban) into a more transparent type of government... And if that's accomplished, we'll be successful."

 

"Approaching counterinsurgency by winning hearts and minds will ultimately be the answer. Military versus insurgency one-to-one doesn't sound like it can be won. It sounds to me... that the Taliban is everywhere," he was quoted as saying.

 

The remarks sparked outrage in US political-strategic circles with critics panning Frist, who is a doctor by profession, of waving the white flag before elements who helped perpetuate 9/11. "

 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2091218.cms

[Aquabat]

Får vel for afghanernes skyld håpe de ikke må det.

[iChristian]

Hvordan vil det gå med den nåværende amerikavennlige regjeringen i Afganistan hvis Taliban kommer inn i varmen, jeg ser for meg statskupp

[Kubin]

"NATO wants to copy Pakistan's militant peace deal: Musharraf

 

ISLAMABAD (AFP) -NATO approves of Pakistan's peace deal with militants in a volatile tribal region and wants Islamabad's help to do the same thing in Afghanistan, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said."

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061011/wl_st...an_061011193221

[Kubin]

Litt "rett fra levra" fra engelsk general i Afghanistan :

 

"Afghanistan war is 'cuckoo', says Blair's favourite general"

 

(...)

 

"...anyone who had read any history, anyone who knew the Afghans, or had seen the terrain, anyone who had thought about the Taliban resurgence, anyone who understood what was going on across the border in Baluchistan and Waziristan [should have known] - to launch the British army in with the numbers there are, while we're still going on in Iraq is cuckoo,' Guthrie said."

 

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffa...1934425,00.html

 

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