Frist: Bring back the Taliban in Afghanistan

[cynatnite]

QALAT, AFGHANISTAN — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan war against Taliban guerrillas can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Islamic militia and its supporters into the Afghan government.

The Tennessee Republican said he learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support to be defeated on the battlefield.

"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."

Afghanistan is suffering its heaviest insurgent attacks since a U.S.-led military force toppled the Taliban in late 2001 for harboring al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/10/02/383378-frist-taliban-should-be-in-afghan-govt

[ComerPerro]

1. So, whose side is he on, here?

[MadMaddie]

2. Fuck Frist.....so now that we have lost numerous soldiars in

Afghanastan....he has miraculously come to the conclusion that we need to work with the very Taliban that worked with Bin Laden....to attack the US....

Can he be dissapeared and considered aiding and abetting the enemy?

[Disturbed]

7. This may not be as insane as it seems.

Frist is usually real politicly lame but this time he may be correct.
The Taliban will cause problems forever if they do not have representation in their own country.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

3. Well, heck, why not just surrender?

The Taliban had more to do with 9/11 than Saddam ever did. Perhaps Mr. Frist would prefer that we just . . . oh, what's the phrase . . . "cut and run?" Then they would be brought into the government -- in fact, they would probably be the government, just like they were in 2001.

To quote Andy Dufresne: "How can you be so obtuse?"

[elehhhhna]

8. CUTnRUN! "Cut 'em in on the arms deals and run their heroin bidness"

IranContra redux AGAIN.

Poppy's Carlyle wetdream coe true.

[elehhhhna]

4. Maybe he did a video-psych- exam and they're not fucknutz crazy no more!

Give a guy a break.

[Red Zelda]

5. Hey Frist...

why not put Saddam in charge of Afghanistan?
(Call Lewis Black)

[Jack Rabbit]

10. Because Saddam is an Iraqi and not an Afghan

Of course, most Congressional Republicans don't know the difference.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. Does he know what he's talking about?

The Taliban do not impress me as a group that wants to share power with anybody. They think they're right and you're wrong. Just like neoconservatives and the Christian right.

[elehhhhna]

9. but but but they used utensils and everything when they came to Sugar Land

to visit Unocal! They can't be all THAT bad!

[Double T]

11. Mission Accomplished?? No??

Looks like this THING is going full circle.

[stillcool]

12. ah jeez....

pipelines not working out?

[louis-t]

13. Lower the bar, ......

lower the bar,lower the bar,lower the bar,lower the bar,lower the bar..