PRESIDENT BUSH OR NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN? NEW GOP STRATEGY OF APPEASEMENT
What do you call someone who talks to their enemies? In Bushworld, you call them appeasers and compare them to Neville Chamberlain, which is why someone needs to buy Bush an umbrella (right-wing dingaling link on purpose): US considering talks with Taliban, official says:
The United States is looking at negotiating with “reconciliable” members of the Taliban in Afghanistan prepared to give up violence and respect the Afghan constitution, a US official said Tuesday.
“We are clearly, as I said, under the strategic review, trying to see if our engagement with any reconcilable elements makes sense,” the State Department official told reporters on the condition of anonymity.
“If people are willing to renounce violence, give up their arms … it makes sense,” said the official.
Talks could take place, he added, if they “give up their arms, renounce violence, pledge allegiance to the Afghanistan constitution and become part of the political process instead of getting in the way of the political process.”
The official was confirming a report in the Wall Street Journal which said the United States is considering taking part in talks with elements of the Taliban in a sharp change in tactics in Afghanistan.
This is followed by lots of qualifiers and administration officials making mushy, ambiguous statements about why they’re skeptical that this might work, but let’s be clear: this is a proposal that came from Bush’s state department. Here’s Dana “Pig Missile” Perino:
“We remain skeptical that there are some Taliban that would actually renounce violence, and renounce extremism, and work for the greater good of Afghanistan,” White House spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters.
“So we’ll let the Afghanis come forward with their ideas, we have our strategic review underway as well, but we do recognize the need to try to reconcile with some of these elements, and we’ve been able to do that in other parts of the world,” she said.
Whatever, Neville. Why does the Bush Administration appease America’s enemies? Or more to the point, why does the Bush Administration hate America?
April 13th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
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