Our allies the Taliban

Earlier this month we learned from the Times Online and VoteVets that the Obama Administration was contemplating forging an alliance with the Taliban in order to bring the war in Afghanistan to quick end. We scoffed at the idea then, and the Taliban themselves give reason to continue to scoff at it today with this message to the people of Afghanistan warning them to to not vote in the up-coming run off election as quoted in the Wall Street Journal;

“The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan urges the people of Afghanistan to not participate in the elections, and once again prove that they are true believers,” the group said in a statement emailed to the Wall Street Journal, using a name referring to the Taliban and allied groups.

“All mujahedeen are ordered to do their best to disrupt the elections and carry out attacks on enemy outposts and prevent people from going to the polling centers,” the statement continued. The group hinted that they would target election workers and voters. “If anyone, including the participants and the workers, gets harmed they have only themselves to blame, since the Islamic Emirate warned them in advance.”

So, since it was Biden’s plan, I wonder how he welcomes this news.

Speaking of Biden, the Wall Street Journal also reports that the Obama Administration is leaning heavily towards Biden’s plan for depending on ninjas and zombie robots to win the war in Afghanistan;

The emerging strategy would largely rebuff proposals to maintain current troop levels and rely on unmanned drone attacks and elite special-operations troops to hunt individual militants, an idea championed by Mr. Biden. It is opposed by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Kabul, and other military officials.

One scenario under consideration, according to an official familiar with the deliberations, calls for deploying 10,000 to 20,000 U.S. reinforcements primarily to ramp up the training of the Afghan security forces. But Gen. McChrystal’s request for 40,000 troops also remains on the table.

People familiar with the internal debates say Mr. Obama rejected a strictly counter-terror approach during White House deliberations in early October. One official said Pentagon strategists were asked to draft brief written arguments making the best case for each strategy, but the strategists had difficulties writing out a credible case for the counter-terror approach — prompting members of Mr. Biden’s staff to step in and write the document themselves.

Let’s look at Biden’s record of successes; he was against the first war against Saddam Hussein, for the second one, for partitioning Iraq and, finally, against the surge…so this new plan must a real winner for us, huh?

ADDED: Bill Roggio points out that no one in the Defense Department was willing to commit to paper a proposal for the Biden plan, resulting in the Biden team writing their own plan without the experts to help.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Terror War