Karzai Says His Administration Talks to the Taliban Every Day
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, February 24, 2012, 4:36 AM
Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai (L), Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari (C) and Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad join hands after a news conference in Islamabad February 17, 2012. Ahmadinejad, accused by the West of pursuing a nuclear weapons programme, said in Pakistan on Friday foreign nations were determined to dominate the region and this should not be allowed. (REUTERS/Mian Khursheed)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his government talks with the Taliban every day.
Reuters reported:
Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai said his government talks to the Taliban every day through intermediaries, according to an interview by Australia’s SBS television for broadcast on Tuesday.
Afghan and U.S. officials are seeking negotiations with the Taliban as a way of ensuring peace after foreign combat troops leave in 2014, though the talks lay in a very fragile state and the Islamist group recently rejected they existed at all.
“We talk to the Taliban every day. We were talking to them just a few days ago somewhere around this region,” Karzai said in an interview taped a week ago in Kabul with SBS, adding his contact with the group’s one-eyed leader Mullah Omar was through indirect means.
“(But) not personally,” Karzai said when asked if he had spoken with Omar. “I mean not directly, person to person. But through intermediaries, yes.” Karzai and many Western analysts say the reclusive leader is based in the Pakistani city of Quetta.
Karzai also stressed that peace talks with the Taliban, who were originally backed by Islamabad, are key to regional stability and bringing peace as well to Pakistan, a player seen as crucial to efforts to end the war in Afghanistan.
“It’s no longer Afghanistan that’s the subject of conversation, or the issue. It’s Pakistan as well. It’s peace in Pakistan as well. It’s stability in Pakistan as well,” he said.
In 2001 we invaded Afghanistan to remove the Taliban thugs from power. Now Karzai and the Obama Administration are holding peace talks and having discussions every day. Can anyone make sense of this?
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Tom63010 commented:
We ought to bomb the Middle East back to the First Century, oh wait, they are already there! Time to cut our loses and get out of there. They are like mercury, you hit them and they scatter but eventually they come back together.
1RedBeard commented:
Nothing coming out of this administration makes any sense at all, in regard to sane foreign policy. The 7th Century throwbacks in Afghanistan are not capable of understanding abstract things like freedom. Their brain capacity is limited to understanding force, or the lack thereof. Obama’s Casper Milquetoast foreign policy projects only weakness, which is being excitedly exploited by the primitive Muslim thugs.
jorgen commented:
Well, Karzai knows who is taking over after Obama cuts and runs.
wanumba commented:
Yeah. Karzai was quite normal until the Democrats informed him and everyone else they were abandoning him and Afghanistan. Now he’s having to make nice to the crowd that’s going to muscle in. Blame the DEMOCRATS for cutting the legs out from under our ALLIES.
DEMOCRATS did this, not Karzai. He’s reacting to what’s been dealt him.
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tommy mc donnell commented:
bush thought he could establish a democracy in afghanistan, the myth wants another totalitarian dictatorship there.
saveus commented:
did obama give him any choice if he wants to live?
jbinnout commented:
Iamadinnerjacket had to touch his left hand. HA!
David Kramer commented:
Yes, I can make sense of this.
The leftists during WW2 used the death cult for their purposes. The leftists are doing it again. YES, it is really that simple. Quit attempting to make up excuses and contrived theories why the left are actually helping the Muzloids. The simplest answer is 95% of the time correct. Occam’s razor folks.
squeaky commented:
“did obama give him any choice if he wants to live?” nope. same with iraq – if obama [or biden] was interested in any continuing relationship he would have picked up the phone rather than wait for the broadway style event in washington. i don’t think obama wants to be on record as the guy who made the wrong call. if things come unglued we’ll hear that “well as i’ve always said…” you think fooling mother nature is bad just show up a narcisisst. i don’t think any of those idiots can tell you what life in an alternate universe would have been like if we took another direction..secure in knowing that you can’t argue with an unknown. since afghanistan isn’t wall to wall pushtoon/taliban what do the other groups think?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Abdullah
bg commented:
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toss in Raila Odinga, David Duke, and Hugo Chavez, top with
Obama dressing, and the fruit salad is complete and ready to
eat, i mean, shove down our stupid infidel throats..
believe Obama’s hero Hitler had a similar plan..
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bg commented:
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the job Obama was “groomed” for.. *sigh*
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bg commented:
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his
government talks with the Taliban every
day.
hah, that’s nothin’..
we have members of the Muslim Brotherhood
in our government advising the White House..
Tarek Fatah video/transcript:
[Today, in the White House, there are three members of the Muslim Brotherhood that influence Obama's policy. One is Rashad Hassan of Indian origin, who is the American ambassador to the 52-nation organization of Islamic countries. Dahlia Mujahid who writes his speech, who comes from the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Just day before yesterday, another woman, an academic, was appointed in that circle. This is happening while we sit silent, and I say that as a liberal democrat, as someone who worked and campaigned for Barrack Obama.
We have evidence in Canada of this penetration that's going on. Our campuses are no longer the campuses where you can talk freely. You have antisemitism on the rise at University of Toronto. Just a couple of weeks ago, there was a count of Jews in the University of Toronto--in an academics class. This is happening friends. I'm not talking of Nuremberg or Heidelberg of the '30s. I'm talking 2011 University of Toronto here in the Social Work Department, where the professor said to the class, Oh, half of my peers are Jews, and it went unprotested. And when it starts with the Jews, because they are so few, trust me, it extends to other people.
We have sacrificed a lot to create a society where men and women are equal, where black and white can be of equal status, where citizenship is not based on inherited race or religion. Let us not sacrifice that in the name of pluralism and tolerance, and tolerate bigotry and Islamofascism as if it was something that need to be tolerated. I refer to that as "racism of lower expectations," when you say yes, the rest of us are equal human beings but those Muslims--well, maybe they are not yet fully developed as human beings, so we will put a lower threshold. If that guy beats up his wife and kills his daughter, we won't even call it honor killing. That happened in this city! When Aqsa Pervez died, there were women groups saying that's not honor killing. For crying out loud, 5000 Pakistani women die every year. If you claim you have done an honor killing, you get half a sentence than what you do with a murder. And yet, there are feminist organizations in this city that would refer to me as a right-wing lunatic or an agent of Zionism for having spoken up for the dead body of Aqsa Pervez.
Why is it happening? Because we are not speaking out. And the dangers
we face, if we do not confront them today, our children will not forgive us
tomorrow.[more at link]
more here & here & here & here..
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Freddy commented:
I think that we should unilaterally declare the karzai governemnt illegitimate.
Then we should appoint temporary administrators of various parts and cities in afghanistan – until new elections can be held.
Meanwhile, the way to kneecap the Taliban is to destroy ALL of the poppy fields. The locals are still pushing drugs and they will need to be changed, whether they like it or not!
Hunter Riley commented:
Good. He can have them. Load up the troops and bring them home. Now.