I think we should try to negotiate with the taliban...At least keep in communication...After all, how do we end a war if there is no communication..WW 2 would have lasted forever without communications.
I would really like to see Osama Bin Laden at the negotiation table because I don't believe he is still alive!...I believe the Taliban are just misguided villagers,,People with extremist dilusions against a foreign invader!!
Let's see Osama!
The Taliban ,those poor misguided villagers as you put it are in reality ignorant, barbaric torturers.
I was just watching the news last night and they were discussing the arrest of 20 self admitted
Taliban.
These fun loving fellows intentionally threw concentrated acid into the faces of 14 schoolgirls and their teacher.
The acid literally ate the eyes right out of the sockets of one of the girls.
The Taliban has repeatedly stated that it's policy opposes ALL schools and education for females.
And what about those stonings in the soccer stadiums?
I mean the sooner we reinstate that cheap form of Taliban family entertainment the better.
Honor killings and rape as a method of controlling womans rights?
The Taliban are a blight on civilization.
The Taliban are a recent product of Pakistan's madrasses.
Those indoctrination centers(disguised as schools) were created and guided by Pakistan's ISI and partially funded by CIA cash.
It was a purely political maneuver by Pakistan.
Their goal was to destabilize neighboring regimes while increasing their own influence in the region.
And it created a ignorant, fundamentalist monster that outgrew its creators.
Canadian troops are presently there because NATO, the G7 and the UN all agree that without peacekeeping and education combined with infrastructure funding that Afghanistan will regress into a godforsaken hellhole.
And believe it or not I too believe our troops should leave that horribly unfortunate country.
Canada's troops have for far too long been carrying more than their fair share of the burden.
Promised funding from other countries has not arrived.
We cant do it alone.
Other countries don't seem to care.
Time to go.
Trex