re: #131 Gus 802

It’s either that or we continue to spend nearly 3.8 billion dollars a month to kill 4 Taliban or AQ insurgents a month. Deadline is now 2014. By then it will be close to 13 years we’ve been throwing money at Afghanistan and fighting an ever elusive enemy. Have the talks and see where it goes.

I dunno. I think that partnering with misogynist, religiously fanatic, terrorists has not really worked out to well for us in the past.

I like the way that the military has adopted strategy to begin listening to the tribal leaders and learning how not to alienate the local Afghanis with arrogance and insensitivity, so I’m generally inclined to give the newer counter-insurgency tactics the benefit of the doubt. But partnering with the Taliban may be where I draw the line. As far as I’m concerned, eliminating the Taliban is really the only legitimate reason for us to be in Afghanistan.