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Obama to buy off Taliban

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I didn't get to watch the whole thing,it was on Fox News, but what I got was that
Obamas' admin. wants to pay the Taliban to switch sides:eek:

Not sure, but I would assume that our tax dollars wil be paying for that too!!!:mad:

A.
 
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/281278

US will pay Taliban members to switch sides

The United States is set to pay off Afghan members who are part of the Taliban organization to switch sides, which adds to $1.3 billion under a new $680 billion defense appropriations bill.
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama signed a new $680 billion defense appropriations bill, which includes a $1.3 billion “Taliban reintegration provision” under the Commander's Emergency Response Program. Generally, CERP funding is usually intended for humanitarian relief and reconstruction projects. However, the US army will begin to pay members of the Taliban to switch sides, according to Reuters.
This strategy is to separate local Taliban from their leaders and a similar tactic was used in Iraq to neutralize the insurgency in that country called Sons of Iraq. Democratic Senator Carl Levin, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, recently stated, “You got 90,000 Iraqis who switched sides, and are involved in protecting their hometowns against attack and violence.”
Nicholas Schmidle, an expert on the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, told CNN that the program has some chance for some success but the old Afghan saying, “You can rent an Afghan, but you can’t buy him,” will eventually win.
President Obama is also considering adding another 40,000 troops to the region, as per the request of commander in Afghanistan; General Stanley McChrystal. As BBC notes, Obama recently said he will not risk the lives “unless it is absolutely necessary.” The President has already approved 21,000 more troops, which will tally to total number of US forces in the region to 68,000.
According to Press TV, 420 troops have been killed this year alone and 1,500 Afghan civilians have been killed, which has been mostly due to US-led air raids.
 
October 29, 2009
The Audacity of Image: Obama at Dover
Monte Kuligowski

Some journalists, most notably Ben Feller of the Associated Press, are fawning over President Obama’s pre-dawn photo op at Dover Air Force Base earlier today. Feller should be ashamed of himself by insinuating that, though former President George W. Bush spent volumes of time with grieving family members, Obama really cares. Mr. Obama, unlike Bush, actually greeted the flag covered corpses of servicemen returning from Afghanistan. This was the one time when Bush should have been left out of the story.

Back to the fawning: Wow. What a president. When most people were sleeping Obama was up braving the darkness in Marine One. Arriving before the dawn, Mr. Obama stood erect brandishing a military salute in honor of the 18 servicemen killed this week in Afghanistan. The bodies were taken from the cargo plane and carried past the solemn president. Incidentally, if Obama came to privately honor the dead before the break of day why were cameras necessary?

He came. He saw. He honored. And he pulled off yet another publicity stunt to hide the fact that the dead were possibly the proximate cause of Obama’s dithering.


Let’s recap. Back in March Obama unveiled his Afghanistan plan:


“If the Afghanistan government falls to the Taliban or allows al-Qaida to go unchallenged,” Obama said, “that country will again be a base for terrorists.” Therefore, Obama’s “clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida . . . .”


But then it came to light at the end of September that the President had only met with the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, one time.

That led to McChrystal’s summons to Air Force One in Copenhagen. McChrystal happened to be near by. Good thing Obama was out campaigning for the Chicago Olympics. At least something positive came out of the Copenhagen mission.

Mr. Obama got McChrsystal’s report in back in August and yet called no meeting with the general. After the awkward Air Force One meeting, Obama still dithered.

Obama wanted to get the runoff election results before sending more troops. Some have suggested he actually was waiting for the election results in Virginia and New Jersey. Now, Obama says he needs another study on Afghanistan before sending more troops.

Meanwhile troops are dying in Afghanistan. In October, American troop deaths reached an all time high at 55.

But not to worry; Obama’s arrival at Dover makes everything right.

So long as Obama has a willing press, image will continue to trump reality.
 
Paying off the Taliban did have some success in Iraq. It will only sway the moderates though.
 
I saw this on cnn.com. wasnt even a headline, just a small story. kinda makes you wonder. they can word it in such a way that kinda makes sense. If they were to say "us to give taliban $1.3 billion" and then go on to explain it there would be a lot more people concerned about this. There should be a lot of people concerned about this, I think.
 
"Did you hear this? President Obama has approved a new plan to pay members of the Taliban to switch sides and support the United States. Yeah, in a related story, 10 million unemployed Americans just joined the Taliban." –Conan O'Brien
 
So if the Taliban openly admit to their allegiance, they would have to show up somewhere to collect their monies correct? I'm no fricken four star general, but that might be a place to set up a sniper...... just sayin
 
There are many people there that join the Taliban just because the Taliban pays well(compared to other jobs) and they want to make money for their family so they can do well. Many of them have no allegiance to the Taliban other than the money.

The USA wants to pay them so that they will join the Afghan Army.
 
There are many people there that join the Taliban just because the Taliban pays well(compared to other jobs) and they want to make money for their family so they can do well. Many of them have no allegiance to the Taliban other than the money.

The USA wants to pay them so that they will join the Afghan Army.


So let the Afghan army pay them...... Not my problem not my $$$$. If we just put all that $$ into a couple great big bombs.....no more problem, no more war!:beer;
 
So let the Afghan army pay them...... Not my problem not my $$$$. If we just put all that $$ into a couple great big bombs.....no more problem, no more war!:beer;

And no more America, no more world, sounds like a great idea. :rolleyes:

What if the French had said it wasn't their problem when we were fighting the British?
 
And no more America, no more world, sounds like a great idea. :rolleyes:

What if the French had said it wasn't their problem when we were fighting the British?


according to Obama the whole world hates us anyway............ Thats why he keeps apologizing! I personally think if we smack the $hit outta some of these turds we would get a little more RESPECT.

A.
 
according to Obama the whole world hates us anyway............ Thats why he keeps apologizing! I personally think if we smack the $hit outta some of these turds we would get a little more RESPECT.

A.

Yeah, we can't fight two wars at the same time right now successfully, why not just go and fight three or four of them. :rolleyes:
 
Yeah, we can't fight two wars at the same time right now successfully, why not just go and fight three or four of them. :rolleyes:


thats my point.............. if they had more respect we wouldn't be fighting ANY wars.

We continue to bail out every other country on this rock......... and they still dis-respect us!!! to hell w/them. we need to take care of HOME.... USA. Plenty to do here instead of all over the world. A.
 
thats my point.............. if they had more respect we wouldn't be fighting ANY wars.

We continue to bail out every other country on this rock......... and they still dis-respect us!!! to hell w/them. we need to take care of HOME.... USA. Plenty to do here instead of all over the world. A.

The USA shares the blame. We are fighting the Afghanistan war because of piss poor foreign policy from the past and we are fighting the Iraq War because Bush had a hard on for Saddam.

If the West had followed through with their promises during the WWII era we would NOT be in this position.

To think it is their fault and not ours at all is ridiculous.
 
In 5th grade I learned that you don't buy off a bully, you beat the crap out of him. Your dear leader has a lot to learn.
 
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