re: #183 goddamnedfrank

The story says we’re negotiating with the Taliban, not al-quaeda. Your lazy conflation is exactly the kind of disingenuous presentation that got us locked into a decade long unwinnable quagmire to begin with. You dont’ have to like either of them to understand that they’re not synonymous, that they have their own self interests that overlap less and less as time goes on. They’re only allied inasmuch as our policies make allying advantageous, or necessary.

Man, what’s this logic doing here?