Memo to John McCain:
Despite past assurances to the contrary, the Bush administration is taking Barack Obama’s advice on foreign policy — again. You know, the one about talking with those evildoers:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the United States would be prepared to reconcile with the Taliban if the Afghan government pursued talks to end the seven-year conflict in that country.
Gates made the comments to reporters Thursday while at a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Budapest, Hungary. The United States and NATO are looking for ways to reduce the rising violence in Afghanistan. […]
Gates, referring to talks with the Taliban, said a similar rapprochement strategy worked in Iraq.
“We promoted a reconciliation that involved people we were pretty confident had been shooting at us and killing our soldiers,” he said.
“At the end of the day, that’s how most wars end,” Gates said, referencing the Sunni Awakening Movement in Iraq.
“There has to be ultimately — and I’ll underscore ultimately — reconciliation as part of a political outcome to this,” he said.
What will the wingnuts say about this? Is Gates a traitor? Is Bush an appeaser? Is Condi Rice a stealth Islamofascist? The mind whirls with all the possible ways they might express their outrage at these un-American defeatists. What would Saint General Petraeus say?
Oh no! He’s an Obama pod person too!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus said on Wednesday that negotiations with some members of the Taliban could provide a way to reduce violence in sections of Afghanistan gripped by an intensifying insurgency.
“If there are people who are willing to reconcile (with the government), then that would be a positive step in some of these areas that have actually been spiraling downward,” said Petraeus, who will soon take up responsibility for U.S. operations in Afghanistan.
Johnny Mac, their lonely Reich Wing eyes turn to you. Say it ain’t so. Don’t let good true blue white Americans get sucked into that black muslim terrorist Obama’s evil plan. What’s that you say?
“I have to tell you [Obama] is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States…”
“He is a decent family man with whom I happen to have some disagreements.” […]
“…I admire Senator Obama and his accomplishments. …”
Oh My God! There’s been a disturbance in the force in a galaxy far, far away. That sound you just heard was the tiny fever swamp brains of millions of ditto heads all exploding with simultaneous brain aneurysms.
I expect the Rapture any second now. Surely a loving Lord and Savior would not allow the faithful to endure such brutal torture any longer.
The edifice has collapsed, right on time.
“We promoted a reconciliation that involved people we were pretty confident had been shooting at us and killing our soldiers”
Ummmm – yeah. They were shooting at you and killing your soldiers because you invaded their country and your soldiers were bombing, shooting at and killing THEM.
You see, THEY were defending THEMSELVES against YOU and the soldiers YOU sent to kill them and their neighbors and families, and to destroy their country. That’s kind of how it works when you attack someone? They – ummmm DEFEND themselves against your attack? Get it?
you can bet McCain got some heavy criticisms from moderate Republicans who became uncomfortable with McCain-Palin attacks and the ugly mob incitement.
McCain knows this intervention will get media airing and that allows him to speak with forked tongue.
Those Ayers Ads are still up.
Hopefully the intervention will get more airing. So if McCain thinks it’s OK….,there’s nothing to fear from Obama, then the last thread for a McCain victory has been snipped.
Now we need to check that the Diebolds are not pre-programmed.
General Petraeus sees value in talking to the Taliban! How nice. And isn’t it too bad that General Petraeus’s ilk and their bosses in Washington DC did not see value in talking to the Taliban back in 2001 when the Taliban were expressing a willingness to negotiate terms for turning over bin Laden?
well, well finally the administration and msm acknowledges something that’s been going on, clandestinely, for at least a month.
from salon
l wonder who betreaus will arm up in afghanistan, and how much this is going to cost to buy their cooperation for a few month.
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Unhelpful for establishing the tone McCain sought in Davenport was the Rev. Arnold Conrad, past pastor of the Grace Evangelical Free Church. His prayer before McCain arrived at the convention center blocks from the Mississippi River appeared to dismiss faiths other than Christianity and cast the election as a referendum on God himself.
“I would also pray, Lord, that your reputation is involved in all that happens between now and November, because there are millions of people around this world praying to their god — whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that his opponent wins, for a variety of reasons.”
“And Lord, I pray that you would guard your own reputation, because they’re going to think that their god is bigger than you, if that happens. So I pray that you will step forward and honor your own name with all that happens between now and Election Day.”
Sure, just like blessing weapons before soldiers are send into battle. GOD DOES NOT WANT WAR!
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."