Karzai confirms holding talks with Taliban

[Wretched Excess]

of course he's talking to the taliban.  it's obvious that this administration can't get out of afghanistan fast enough to please them, and he would prefer to not be camel food the day after we bug out.  the obamites don't want to be there in the first place, and the only reason we are there is sheer politics.

I doubt any peace can be accomplished without ceding territory, and the taliban strongholds of kandahar and helmand province would be the most likely candidates.  what a lousy reason to ask american service men and women to give their lives.

Karzai confirms holding talks with Taliban

Afghan President Hamid Karzai confirmed holding unofficial talks with the Taliban "for quite some time," in a bid to end the nine-year war, according to an interview transcript released Sunday.

"We have been talking to the Taliban as countryman to countryman, talk in that manner," Karzai told CNN's Larry King when asked about a Washington Post report on "secret high level talks" between the two sides.

"Not as a regular official contact with the Taliban with a fixed address but rather unofficial personal contacts have been going on for quite some time," he said in a release of excerpts from the interview, to air in full on Monday.

Last week the Washington Post said the secret talks were believed to involve the Afghan government and representatives authorized by the Quetta Shura, the Afghan Taliban group based in Pakistan, and Taliban leader Mullah Omar. It cited unnamed Afghan and Arab sources.

Earlier Sunday, Afghanistan's former president Burhanuddin Rabbani was elected chairman of a new peace council, a brainchild of Karzai, set up to broker an end to the war with the Taliban.

"Now that the peace council has come into existence, these talks will go on and will go on officially and more rigorously I hope," Karzai told Larry King.

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[true_blood]

Am I surprised, no. Am I pissed, YES!

[DumbAss Tanker]

After the way the Oministration tried to stab him in the back after the Afghan election?  He'd be nuts NOT to be talking to them.  On top of which, current Ominstration personnel moves signal that we are packing our bags next Summer regardless of what conditions are like, which only reinforces the soundness of this move as a survival strategy.

[Wretched Excess]

After the way the Oministration tried to stab him in the back after the Afghan election?  He'd be nuts NOT to be talking to them.  On top of which, current Ominstration personnel moves signal that we are packing our bags next Summer regardless of what conditions are like, which only reinforces the soundness of this move as a survival strategy.

yep.  the obamites decried the afghan election, but endorsed the sham in iran that returned ahmedinejad to power.  it's a thousand wonders that we have any allies left;  we seem to be much softer on countries that openly hate us.