With Islamic riots, skyrocketing deficits, and state-skipping Democratic legislators hogging the headlines, this item has not yet gotten the attention it deserves. Steve Coll writes in The New Yorker, “The Obama Administration has entered into direct, secret talks with senior Afghan Taliban leaders, several people briefed about the talks told me last week.” Obama mentioned reaching out to “Taliban moderates” in 2009, only to drop the idea after public backlash. Apparently, the Obama administration has decided now is the time it wishes to look weak, hopeless, and pathetic.
Hillary Clinton detailed the American stance before a meeting of the Asia Society recently. She emphasized that if the Taliban returned to its history of repression and terror incubation, it would risk being branded “an enemy of the international community.” Mullah Omar and his buddies must be shaking in their turbans.
Hillary tried to calm the situation, saying, “I know that reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable.” But she insisted, this is what Reagan would do.
She attributed her policy to Ronald Reagan and Richard Holbrooke. The lesson she and Obama learned from The Gipper is that peace does not come by only speaking with one’s friends. “President Reagan understood that when he sat down with the Soviets. And Richard Holbrooke made this his life’s work. He negotiated face to face with Milosevic and ended a war.”
Reagan refused to hold a single summit with the Soviet Union until Gorbachev took the helm, famously joking, “I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.” Richard Holbrooke’s foreign policy ripped Kosovo from Serbia and turned it over to the Kosovo Liberation Army, an affiliate of al-Qaeda armed by Iran, which has since mercilessly persecuted the nation’s Christian population.
Totally Hopeless, Totally Clueless
The New Yorker writes things are worse than this. At this point, the American negotiators do not even know which members of the Taliban’s leadership would want to negotiate, “if any.” Our goal is “to persuade at least some important Taliban leaders to break with Al Qaeda.” Moreover, President Hamid Karzai has been carrying out “sporadic” talks with the Taliban since 2008 with zero tangible results.
The Clintons’ History of Surrender
Going, hat-in-hand, in the hopes someday someone in the Taliban might allow you to negotiate terms of surrender does not convey the hope of peace; it conveys weakness and gives them hope of reclaiming their nation. History is on their side. In April 1998, the Clinton administration sent Bill Richardson to Afghanistan to convince the Northern Alliance to accept a ceasefire agreement against the Taliban. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher later recounted, “I cannot stress this more forcefully: it was a pivotal moment. The Taliban could easily have been defeated.”
The Clintons talked our allies into stopping short. The ceasefire lasted one month, long enough for the Taliban to recover and take over the country. Thirteen years later, Hillary and her boss seem ready to repeat this history.
One additional point should be made. Now that they’ve been published in The New Yorker, these talks can hardly be described as “secret.” The Obama administration can’t even manage quiet surrender properly.
The idiots in charge have no idea who they are dealing with, these people cannot be bargained with. If our so called leaders would take the time to read the Koran, look at the history of Islam from it's inception they might and I say MIGHT figure out that as Christians, Jews and all other religions we must be converted to Islam or die.
What may have started out as a religion of peace took a dark turn later in the Koran and all laters writings supercede previous ones. Check it out.
If we don't stop them now our country will fall to them as so many have through out history.
How could this ignorant immature inexperienced boob have any idea what Reagan would do in any situation. The Usurper is trying to use Reagan, a man of reason, to justify his every failure. He has to be totally mad to make any comparison between himself and any president other than Carter or early Clinton. Why else would he have Clinton out fronting for his failed attempt at socializing America and trying to sway America to give his failed policies another chance in 2012. I do not think so! We have seen enough from this anti-Constitution, anti-american, anti – Bill of rights socialist that can not even uphold his oath of office to protect the country from invasion by a third world countries populace and underground along with tons of drugs daily. I would never call for the IMPEACHMENT of Reagan!. Right now he has abandoned govering the country and is concentrating on supporting the unions in Wisconsin. His own cabinet claims they have no access to him while he givesa time weekly to the various Union, especially the SEIU's thug leader and has his campaign organization out supporting the illegtal actions of the unions as well. I think he has made a major mistake because this one American hard working tax payers are watching.
Reagan wouldn't side with the enemy like Obuma does.This man child president wants to be a dictator like his friend Hugo and Fidel.This turkey hurts our allies and emboldens our enemys
Yeah, he's talking with the Taliban just like he talks to Trumpka, Stern, Wallis, Soros and all the other THUGS instead of talking to the AMERICAN PEOPLE and even those in his own cabinet who have'nt even had a phone call from this jacka** in 2 years.
Just an aside, to our inspirational leader's quest to establish himself as the "GLOBAL MESSIAH", I hear some additional disturbing rumors that he has officially presented a document to the Chinese Government through his equally ,global ambitionist, Hillary Rhodam Clinton, that would grant Eminent Domain qualifications and rights to the Chinese Government should we default on any portion of our now trillions in debt and interest we now and will continue to owe them for decades. Such collateral would include land,factories and in some cases entire cities. How absurd you say! Well, the State of Illinois(How Coincidental) has been engaged for quite some time(No money mind you) with representatives of the Chinese Government and Commerce Reps. and have all ready identified certain locations as sort of Chinese Free Trade Zones to include cultural enhancements in their quote/unquote mutual entrepreneurial venture. Now with Emmanuel at the helm in Chicago the now(SMARTER THAN US FOLKS) strike again. When will this country ever wake up?