Taliban to open office in Qatar

[High_Gravity]

The Vietnamese killed 58,000+ Americans and now are a "Most Favored Trading Partner"

The Taliban deserve to be treated with equal respect.

Since they are going to be part of the Afghan government that we set up.

You can't let the people you are currently fighting against open up liason offices in your country while you are currently fighting them, makes no sense and goes against everything in warfare.

We will never defeat the Taliban by military means.

They have been fighting invaders and occupiers for over a thousand years and have never been conquered.

Generational fighting and armed resistance is a built in part of their culture.

Making peace with the Taliban is our only viable solution for stability in Afghanistan.

Even if that is the case, liasions and other business deals should be talked about after the fighting is stopped, makes no sense to let them open up shop in New York while US Troops are still exchanging gun fire with them in Kandahar.

 

[Sunni Man]

Even if that is the case, liasions and other business deals should be talked about after the fighting is stopped, makes no sense to let them open up shop in New York while US Troops are still exchanging gun fire with them in Kandahar.

The only reason we are still fighting with them is because or troops are in their country.

Once we declare "Victory" and leave.

The fighting with our soldiers will cease.

 

[kwc57]

The Vietnamese killed 58,000+ Americans and now are a "Most Favored Trading Partner"

The Taliban deserve to be treated with equal respect.

Since they are going to be part of the Afghan government that we set up.

Sunni, you can make some very good posts, but when it comes to the subject of your religion, you are blindly biased and irrational.

 

[Sunni Man]

The Vietnamese killed 58,000+ Americans and now are a "Most Favored Trading Partner"

The Taliban deserve to be treated with equal respect.

Since they are going to be part of the Afghan government that we set up.

Sunni, you can make some very good posts, but when it comes to the subject of your religion, you are blindly biased and irrational.

LOL you are not the first person to tell me that same thing.

 

[High_Gravity]

Even if that is the case, liasions and other business deals should be talked about after the fighting is stopped, makes no sense to let them open up shop in New York while US Troops are still exchanging gun fire with them in Kandahar.

The only reason we are still fighting with them is because or troops are in their country.

Once we declare "Victory" and leave.

The fighting with our soldiers will cease.

Well than we need to go ahead and do that before we start allowing them to open liasons and diplomatic offices in other countries.

 

[Annie]

Cynicism:

U.S. said poised to free Taliban prisoners - UPI.com

...It was unclear early Wednesday if the deal would include having the Taliban release U.S. Army Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, 25, kidnapped in Afghanistan in June 2009. He is the only U.S. soldier held by the Islamist militant and political group.

"To take this step, the [Obama] administration has to have sufficient confidence that the Taliban are going to reciprocate," former Obama administration Afghan peace-process adviser Vali Nasr told The Guardian.

"It is going to be really risky," said Nasr, a Tufts University international politics professor and senior foreign-policy fellow at the non-partisan Brookings Institution think tank. "Guantanamo is a very sensitive issue politically."

Former European Union Afghan envoy Michael Semple, now a Harvard University human rights fellow, told The Guardian he thought releasing the prisoners was politically feasible for President Barack Obama, even in an election year.

"The prospect of ending a costly war in Afghanistan is sufficiently attractive for the Obama administration to move forward with it," Semple said.

Obama declared in June the United States had largely achieved its goals in Afghanistan and would withdrawal U.S. troops from the country by 2014.

"Even if all five of these people they release went straight back to Quetta [a Taliban stronghold city in Pakistan near Iran and Afghanistan] to rejoin a fight, it wouldn't make any real difference," Semple told The Guardian.

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