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Obama, in an interview with the 'New York Times', expressed an openness to adapting tactics in Afghanistan that had been used in Iraq to reach out to moderate elements there.
This does not require any response or reaction for this is illogical, Qari Mohammad Yousuf, a purported spokesman for the insurgent group, said when asked if its top leader Mullah Mohammad Omar would make any comment about Obama's proposal.
The Taliban are united, have one leader, one aim, one policy...I do not know why they are talking about moderate Taliban and what it means?
If it means those who are not fighting and are sitting in their homes, then talking to them is meaningless. This really is surprising the Taliban.
In Iraq, the use of Sunni Muslim community leaders to employ their people to patrol their neighbourhoods has been credited as one of the main reasons behind sharp falls in violence.
Obama did point out that compared to Iraq, the situation was more complex in Afghanistan, where nearly 70,000 foreign troops, 38,000 of them American, are due to be joined in coming months by another 17,000 US soldiers.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who has been leading Afghanistan since US-led troops overthrew the Taliban in an invasion in 2001, welcomed Obama's proposal.
The number of foreign troops in Afghanistan has risen steadily since Taliban's ouster after they refused to hand over al Qaeda leaders responsible for the Sept 11 attacks on the United States.
So has the level of Taliban attacks against the government and foreign forces, prompting Obama to term Afghanistan as a top foreign policy priority for his new administration.
Some Western politicians and military officers now say the war cannot be won by military means alone and a solution will have to involve some form of reconciliation.
Yousuf said expulsion of foreign troops was the only solution for Afghanistan's spiraling violence.
Afghans know better how to decide about their destiny, he replied when asked if the Taliban were willing to hold talks with Karzai's government should and when the troops leave.
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Not even 100 days in Office and this Idiot is already turning into a dim-wit ! ! !Howwill he survive forthe next 5 years inthe Oval Office ???
Is there logic in politics anywhere in the world? If logic were to come in, politics would disappear. We would have logical chaos. It is said that a surgeon, an engineer and a politician were arguing as to whose profession was the oldest. The surgeon said that God fashioned Eve out of Adam's rib and that was a feat of surgery. The engineer said that, before Adam and Eve came on the scene, God made the land, the seas, the mountains, the rivers and the lakes and put order in the world out of the chaos that existed. At this the politician piped in and said, "Who do you think created the chaos? ! Chaos is the politicians stock-in-trade. Have a good laugh.
Obama is out of sync with ground realities. He doesn't seem to understand what war is. There is a war on in Afghanistan and Pakistan and he is fighting it with one hand tied behind. He has limited troops on the ground and, without full air support, the ground troops can make no progress or win the war. America has enough satellite intelligence to strike a pinhead from the air (including Pak's nuclear weapons that are, in America's reckoning a stumbling block to ending world terrorism) and it seems to be shying away from doing a thorough and swift job in defeating the enemy. What can you call this - stupidity or timidity? Obama may be a good orator but his worth seems to end with that. Sad for America.
Obama Policies are all Failure and India must be very careful not to fellow in the footstep of Present USA Administration, this is the reason why Mr Bush always talked in the Language in which Taliban will Understand, OBAMA Achievement is Big ZERO, where there Rice is cooked or not can be found by just taking one grain of rice to check so within this 6 weeks Obama Proved complete Failure, nothing more can be expected in his 4yr term