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Sat Mar-07-09 05:52 PM
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Obama mulls reaching out to moderate Taliban: report

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is open to the idea of reaching out to moderate elements of the Taliban, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

In an interview with the newspaper published on its website, Obama said that some of the U.S. success in Iraq involved reaching out to Islamic fundamentalists who had been alienated by the tactics of al Qaeda in Iraq.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090307/pl_nm/us_obama_afghanistan_2

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"Moderate Taliban" isn't that sort of like "compassionate conservative"?

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