Taliban paid £100 a month to stop fighting

[FarCenter]

The “reintegration” programme, which has the full support of Nato, is intended to keep them from attacking troops from the International Stabilisation and Assistance Force (ISAF).

Those who have attacked and killed British forces are also effectively given an amnesty, which means they will never be put on trial.

The amnesty extends to all Taliban fighters, including those who have taken part in atrocities, such as murdering children, beheadings and hanging women.

The agreement is part of a policy signed by the British Government in which insurgents are being allowed to “walk off the battlefield” and enter a “reintegration” scheme.

Taliban joining the programme are not interrogated but instead are asked to complete a questionnaire explaining their reasons for joining the insurgency.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8901151/Taliban-paid-100-a-month-to-stop-fighting.html

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Sadly, probably the most effective thing to be done. nt

[burrowowl]

2. K&R

Interesting. Go to article...

[Selatius]

3. Paying off your adversaries is a good way to victory if you're not cash-strapped.

However, the problems arise once again if the cash flow is somehow interrupted, and it doesn't really answer the underlying reasons why they were blowing up and shooting your soldiers. Worse yet, there's no guarantee that a small number of them won't simply take the money and use it to buy more weapons and bombs, to blow up and kill more of your soldiers.

[Swede]

4. That's how you end wars.

Or it will go on and on.

[saras]

5. OP missed the real point - which is that the Brits try to SOLVE whatever grievance led them to join

What if the cops did that for everyone who joins OWS?

"Well, what led you to join OWS?"

"They did? They laid off ALL of you? That's illegal. We can go fix that."