Negotiating with terrorists

By all accounts, the Taliban are getting ther rears waxed in Afghanistan and Pakistan, so in order to stop the killing, Hamed Karzai, the Afghan president, humanely gave the Taliban an opportunity to save themselves from extermination. And their answer? According to the Associated Press;

Karzai said Saturday he would be willing to meet personally with Taliban leader Mullah Omar and give militants a position in government in exchange for peace. But Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi repeated a position he announced earlier this month, saying there would be no negotiations until U.S. and NATO troops withdraw from Afghanistan.

“The Taliban will never negotiate with the Afghan government in the presence of foreign forces,” Ahmadi told The Associated Press. “Even if Karzai gives up his presidency, it’s not possible that Mullah Omar would agree to negotiations. The foreign forces don’t have the authority to talk about Afghanistan.”

I guess it doesn’t matter that “foreign forces” are prevalent in the Taliban, and the Taliban figures they have the authority to talk about Afghanistan. They act like they’re negotiating from a position of strength, don’t they? Actually, they’re just sealing their fate. Terrorist organizations don’t negotitate – they only die.

Kate from A Columbo-Americana’s Perspective emailed me a Gateway Pundit story about Islamists finally succeeding in damaging the Buddha statue in Swat, Pakistan. GP quotes a Times of India story;

A seventh-century Buddhist relic in Pakistan was damaged when Islamic militants blasted it with dynamite, police said on Saturday.

They said that the militants used home-made bombs to try to blow up the mountainside engraving, a Buddhist pilgrimage site, and fired at it using automatic weapons.

“Late on Friday, militants attempted to blow up the engraving but they could only damage it partially,” local police official Masood Khan said, adding it was the second attempt to destroy the relic, in Swat in northwest Pakistan.  

Kate sent the story because I mentioned the Arafat-scarf-wearing ANSWER creep at the Burma protest in DC yesterday, but I was thinking of the Buddhist shrine in Afghanistan when I mentioned it.

I guess there’s no making these little thugs happy – so kill them all. And if the ANSWER creeps want to throw their support behind the Taliban, then maybe they should all enlist in the Taliban.

Category: Foreign Policy, Terror War