It turns out that the party of appeasement and surrender is...

[gridlore]

.. the GOP.

Frist urges surrendering to the TALIBAN

QALAT, Afghanistan U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan guerrilla war can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Taliban and their supporters into the Afghan government.

The Tennessee Republican said he had learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support to be defeated by military means.

"You need to bring them into a more transparent type of government," Frist said during a brief visit to a U.S. and Romanian military base in the southern Taliban stronghold of Qalat. "And if that's accomplished we'll be successful."

The Taliban. The people who made Osama bin-Laden an honorary Minister. The lovely people who converted a soccer stadium into an execution pit, and killed people for such crimes as being female and being in public alone or not having a beard of appropriate length. These are the guys who blew up priceless carvings of Buddha in their religious insanity.

These are the people Bill Frist wants to see back in charge.

Comments

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

So let's see, here. Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11, is central to our struggle in the fight of our ways of life. It is a quagmire which we have no chance of "winning" or really of even calming in the foreseeable future.

Afghanistan, on the other hand, which under the Taliban had direct links to funding and preparing the 9/11 suicide squads, which was going quite well until we pulled resources and attention away for Iraq, is now unwinnable and we should just abandon it entirely. We should intentionally repatriate the Taliban and stop the pressure on finding OBL, because while the insurgents and militants in Iraq will never accept a political solution to our differences, the insurgents and militants in Afghanistan have proven themselves so willing to sit down peacefully at the bargaining table over the years.

... Isn't this the same kind of pandering and cowardice that the Republicans have spent the last 6 years accusing the Democrats of before the national viewing public?

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

A military victory against the Taliban would require Vietnam levels of forces and financial aid and then it still might not work.

Bringing the more moderate members of the Taliban into the government fold is an easier path to normalcy. Its what Pakistan has already done on the side of the border.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

And here I always thought that getting those psychotic bastards out of power was the one good thing about all of this.