Frist Says Afghanistan LOST-Time To SURRENDER To Taliban

[kpete]

U.S. Senate majority leader calls for efforts to bring Taliban into Afghan government
The Associated Press
MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2006

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."

Frist said asking the Taliban to join the government was a decision to be made by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

more at:
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/ap/2006/10/02/asia/AS_GEN_Afghanistan_Frist.php

[bowens43]

1. It's the only viable choice at this point.

Afghanistan is un-winnable. Had they taken this stance from the beginning , the Taliban would have turned Bin Laden over in early 2001.

[zbdent]

2. If ANY dem said this

they would be strung up by the media ...

[spanone]

3. Frist is the ultimate weather vane politician. Spineless amoeba.

He' a senator from my state & that's all I'll say.

[robertpaulsen]

4. Cuz after all, the Taliban weren't in Iraq when we were attacked on 9/11.

Or something like that.

:wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf:

[skids]

5. Wait isn't that cut and run?

Seriously, if we had left Iraq alone and smothered Afghanistan with troops and humanitarian aid, the world would be so very different today.

[cynatnite]

6. Right here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2287887&mesg_id=2287887