Brilliant. Instead of killing our totalitarian-minded Islamist enemies, let’s allow them to control territory in the name of peace so they can train more enemies to wage war against us. Just brilliant:

MCCLATCHY – The Afghan government is pursuing an ambitious new peace initiative in which Pakistan would replace the United States in arranging direct talks between the warring sides and the Taliban would be granted government posts that effectively could cede to them political control of their southern and eastern strongholds.

If implemented, the plan would diminish the role of the United States in the peace process, but would still leave Washington with input on a number of critical issues, including the terms for initiating negotiations. Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Great Britain also would be involved.

The plan foresees the United States working with Kabul and Islamabad in determining which insurgent leaders would participate. The United States also would be critical to approving the removal of the insurgent negotiators from the U.N.’s list of terrorists.

Entitled “Peace Process Roadmap to 2015,” the blueprint represents a decision by Karzai – in close coordination with Pakistan – to assume the lead in peace-making efforts following the collapse earlier this year of an Obama administration bid to persuade the Taliban to participate in direct talks with Kabul.

The plan was presented to Pakistan and the United States during visits last month by High Peace Council Chairman Salauddin Rabbani, who Karzai named to the post after Rabbani’s father, former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, was assassinated in September 2011.

The State Department declined to comment on the plan, refusing even to confirm its existence. However, a State Department official, who requested anonymity because of the issue’s sensitivity, was authorized to say that, “The United States continues to support an Afghan-led peace process and welcomes initiatives through which Afghans sit down with other Afghans in pursuit of that goal.”

The Afghan embassy did not respond to a request to discuss the plan.

By 2015, Taliban, Hezb-e-Islami and other armed groups will have given up armed opposition, transformed from military entities into political parties, and are actively participating in the country’s political and constitutional processes, including national elections,” says the plan’s preamble. “NATO/ISAF forces will have departed from Afghanistan, leaving the ANSF (Afghan National Security Forces) as the only legitimate armed forces delivering security and protection to the Afghan population.”

The new plan would preserve Afghanistan as a parliamentary democracy, denying the militants the Islamic rule for which they’ve spent years fighting.

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bobemakk
bobemakk

Get the hell out now! The Afghan soldiers our troops have trained are turning against our own freedom fighters. Let Afghanistan go to hell.

mikeinidaho
mikeinidaho

As with Egypt, Obama and company will do whatever is necessary to support pro-terrorist muslim scum as they work to re-establish the Caliphate!

aposematic
aposematic

2000+ Americans dead and counting... The US proposes pigs to soon fly; all will be well. Six months to send the Taliban running to the caves, 11 more years to cement Taliban rule in Law. The rise of Islamic Fascist around the World is a major part of Obuma's/Hillarious' plan for America's destruction.

Yazz55
Yazz55

How to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

... the theme of the obamessiah regime

Landscaper
Landscaper

"........our totalitarian-minded Islamist enemies....train more enemies to wage war against us." -Scoop

The United was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001 as we all know, right? So {2001} specifically is what I ask? Two thousand and one years A.D. {after death} of who? Jesus. Not Muhammad. No matter how they slice it or dice it, the calendar is based on our Saviors death not their so called prophet.

Class dismissed, end of that TRUTH in our History lesson.

repubboy
repubboy

What the hell is this administration doing? Why are we still there.. Mr. president. Please pull your head out of the place where the sun don't shine.. Bring our men and women home.. and to heck with those savages.. This is the biggest FUBAR POS that you and your people have come up with.. idiots !!!!

Myptofvu
Myptofvu

The problem now is the same as the one that happened in Vietnam. If we leave while the opposition is still a threat then the half of Afghanistan that sided with us will be slaughtered by their countrymen. The Afghanis knowing this are in no hurry to become trained to be able to ward off the Taliban. I mean why put their necks on the line when they have us to do it for them. This is why I believe they are trying to broker a deal with the Taliban that will leave them with some semblance of power in return for a promise of no retribution.

If we did up and leave and the Taliban committed reprisals then it would look like we abandoned our allies and then we would never get cooperation in the future from any other country should the need arise.

This is why it is dangerous to get into conflicts without a declaration of war and a clear objective because they always end up putting us in a lose lose situation.

Libertyship46
Libertyship46

We never should have stayed in Afghanistan as long as we have. We should have gone in there, killed (yes killed, NOT imprison or chase away) as many of the Taliban and al Qaeda that we could lay our hands on, we should have destroyed their bases and flattened their tribal strongholds, and then we should have just left. Set up a provisional government, people who actually wanted to rule Afghanistan with an iron grip, and then gone home with the understanding that if they ever, EVER, threatened the United States again we would turn their pathetic excuse for a "counrty" into a sea of glass with nuclear strikes. I'll bet you anything it would have not only convinced them to leave us alone, but we would have saved about 8 years of blood and treasure in fighting for that worthless country. It's what the British used to call a "Punitive Expedition," a tactic perfected by Lord Roberts of Kandahar, the last successful westerner to really win a war in Afghanistan. Time we start dusting off our history books and see how more successful people dealt with radical Islamic tribesmen.

LIBERTYUSA
LIBERTYUSA

...just give the ISLAMO NAZIS TALIBAN the whole enchilada then go back and NUKE EM BACK TO HELL!"

Myptofvu
Myptofvu

Hey that's great. I mean who doesn't like a good honor killing once in awhile?

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

We don't like the way the 'Tolly-Bonn' (as Obama likes to call them) does things and we don't like the way Karzai does things. Why don't we just pull our boys out now and let them shoot at each other instead of at our military?

In fact, let's pull out our military from all across the arab world, let them have their Caliphate, and then we will know just exactly where to dump all those excess nukes the liberals always say we have.

It seems like an easy and efficient solution to me.

PuritanD71
PuritanD71

Just reading the headline makes my blood boil! Benghazi and now this, why not just remove our colors and put up a white flag announcing to all our enemies that we are like the French when Paris was on the verge of attack.

We have an appeaser in the White House and spineless wonders in the Congress and fearers of media's opinion in the SC. Makes me wonder how we can even make it to 2014 in trying to fix this mess.

sjmom
sjmom

Once again Barack is aiding and abetting our enemies. Looks like its time for the treason charges.

deTocqueville1
deTocqueville1

Unfortunately this was always going to be the problem and as I watched all of the efforts of the US and Canada in the schools, etc. going for naught back in 2006, I stopped deluding myself about the logical outcome of this war. It should have been ended long ago and lives saved.

Sober_Thinking
Sober_Thinking

Um... so we're surrendering. Right?

This pisses me off. Many of my friends served there and were under fire. Just get our people out of there now...

Obama is a miserable POS!!!!!

911Infidel
911Infidel

ROFLOL. As one villager in A$$istan said not long ago: "We're all Talibs here". Yeah no shite.

Laurel
Laurel

This is what happens when you approach wars with the 'kinder, gentler' mentality. Good thing we didn't do that with WWI and WWII.

Afghanistan should of been made a dust mote. Given even half the chance I guarantee you the Taliban will make YOU a dust mote.

Now they have been given that chance.

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

Oh yeah, I can totally see the taliban giving up their satanic rule and happily following along in a peaceful Afghan government.

Uhm, tell me again because maybe I'm stupid. Why are our troops dying over there for again?

Sober_Thinking
Sober_Thinking

So the cancer wasn't removed... I guess cancer just stays in remission all on it's own and never spreads again if given a second chance.

FIRE OBAMA NOW!!!!!

Orangeone
Orangeone

Best treatment for cancer is radiation! Hint, hint, wink, wink.