Speaking today to Fox News, US Commander in Afghanistan Gen. David Petraeus insisted that the “ultimate goal” of the nearly nine year long war is to enable the “reconciliation”of the Karzai government with the Taliban.
And while such talks have actually taken place (mostly with official US ambivalence), Gen. Petraeus says the war must continue until it “creates conditions” for a more favorable reconciliation.
According to Petraeus, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has laid out a number of “redline” demands, including that they accept the constitution and disarm, and that the war will have to continue until the insurgency meets those demands.
The Taliban has demands of their own, of course, and has repeatedly said that they would only accept a reconciliation deal if the international troops were to leave Afghanistan. In both cases the demands appear unlikely to be met.
Of course the failure of the peace talks so far has not happened in a vacuum, and earlier this week officials with the Pakistani government confirmed that they had sabotaged a previous peace deal involving Taliban moderates by arresting them en masse. Pakistani officials say they were worried that the deal was happening “behind their backs” and that the deal would hand Afghanistan over to pro-India interests.
So the point of the Afghanistan War was to reach a power sharing agreement with the former Rulers of the country? Bizarre.
The war, occupation and terror must continue until Afghan Patriots are exterminated, and quisling and Janissary are the only one left to "reconcile" with, said Alexander the Great wanna be.
The problem for Washington is that al-Qaeda supports the Palestinians, and wants to end the U.S. control of most Middle Eastern nations because it is used to keep them from supporting the Palestinian resistance. If even a handful of people in a Middle Eastern country supports Hamas, then it must be threatened, sanctioned, destabilized by funding rioters like the Green Movement, have its infrastructure bombed for twelve years like Iraq in the 1990s, or ultimately be invaded. No cost in (American) money or (American) lives is too high a price for (Israel's) peace. So says AIPAC and the rest of the Zionists in Washington.
Therefore, the Taliban will be attacked until they break with al-Qaeda. Which they won't. So the war will go on and keep helping isolate and bankrupt America. All for its precious "ally" Israel, yanking the chain to make the big dog bark.
"…earlier this week officials with the Pakistani government confirmed that they had sabotaged a previous peace deal involving Taliban moderates by arresting them en masse…"
Really..because the way to bring a group like the Taliban to the table to talk is to arrest all the people in that organization who prefer talking over shooting. I feel that there should be another Bud Light Real Men of Genius commecial here for Mr. Foreign Policy Man.
Unkel Sham sez…. Bow down, lick my boot, and get a pat on the head. Try and stand up and you'll get a bullet in it.
Petreas: Insists War Must Continue to 'Create Conditions' for Reconciliation
Jct: What a joke for the general of the invaders to think there can be any reconciliation with the Taliban Resistance. Lots have relatives killed by the invaders. Would you reconcile with the invaders who'd killed your kin? I guess since Petreas does his killings by pressing buttons far away, it's not as objectionable to them as if he'd killed them more eye-to-eye.
This is very nearly the 'Saigon moment' in Afghanistan