Bill Frist: Taliban should be in Afghan Govt

[nam78_two]

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/10/02/383378-frist-taliban-should-be-in-afghan-govt


QALAT, AFGHANISTAN — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan war against Taliban guerrillas can never be won militarily and urged support for efforts to bring "people who call themselves Taliban" and their allies into the government.

The Tennessee Republican said he learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support to be defeated on the battlefield.

"You need to bring them into a more transparent type of government," Frist said during a brief visit to a U.S. and Romanian military base in the southern Taliban stronghold of Qalat. "And if that's accomplished, we'll be successful."

Afghanistan is suffering its heaviest insurgent attacks since a U.S.-led military force toppled the Taliban in late 2001 for harboring al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.


"You need to bring them into a more transparent type of government," ??? I have no idea what point he is even making here .....

[Beelzebud]

1. Stunning.... The Taliban, if you believe the offical story, was complicit

in 9/11...

[Jackpine Radical]

2. They need to learn how to program Diebold machines

so we can teach them American-style democracy.

[Ice4Clark]

3. Does this make Frist an "enemy combatant"

Wasn't the taliban involved in 9/11? Can we throw him in a hole and waterboard him? I can dream can't I?

[joemurphy]

4. A disquisition on geopolitics from the man who saw Teri Schiavo

as vibrant and alive. He also has a history of dissecting cats. Heed his sage words!

[NC_Nurse]

5. He loves him some religious nutjobs

don't he?
First the Schiavos and their crew, now the friggin' Taliban!
Why is this man a doctor? Has he started the movement to go back to bloodletting and leeches yet?

[nam78_two]

7. You probably know this already but for anyone reading who doesn't

He used to pretend to be offering cats a home and then take them from shelters and dissect them...

Something is wrong with these people....

Edit: Ok reading this thread probably redundant ;). Everyone seems aware of the cat stuff...
Was surprised to meet some TN liberals who didn't one time...

[LostInAnomie]

6. Sorry cat killer, you've just kissed your presidential run goodbye.

On the bright side though it will give you plenty of time to renew your medical license and diagnose brain dead patients from a TV monitor.

[AIJ Alom]

8. Oh GEE WHIZ, you think it could be the same in Iraq ???? n/t

[Leopolds Ghost]

9. Harold Ford should show no mercy. Who Lost Afghanistan? n/t

[bridgit]

10. that's cause The Bush Doctrine has been a failure from the Gitmo...

they're losing their ass over there, all is lost, and NOW republicans want to talk after wasting so much innocent blood & treasure disgusting!!! the lot of them to the Hague

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