Taliban To Clinton...Stick That Tough, Smart Diplomacy Crap Up Your Ass

I believe the diplomatic term for the Taliban's reaction to the Obama/Clinton plan for "honorable reconciliation" is "frank".

Taliban insurgents reject a U.S. offer of "honorable reconciliation," a top spokesman said on Wednesday, calling it a "lunatic idea" and saying the only way to end the war was to withdraw foreign troops.

...U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an international conference on Afghanistan on Tuesday that those members of the Taliban who abandoned extremism must be granted an "honorable form of reconciliation."

"This matter was also raised in the past," said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, referring to comments last month by Obama, who spoke of reaching out to moderate Taliban.

"They have to go and find the moderate Taliban, their leader and speak to them. This is a lunatic idea," Mujahid said by telephone from an unknown location.

Of course the US answer will be, well this isn't the kind of Taliban Clinton was talking about. But as Bill Rogio points out, this isn't anything new and in fact a lot of former fighters have been reconciled, so this maybe what's left.

Then what?

posted by DrewM. at 11:29 AM

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