"Frist: Taliban Should Be Part of Afghan Government"

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,217198,00.html

You know, it's just a bunch of crazy Islamic fundamentalists. They want to run Afghanistan? Fine, let them do it. We can't beat them anyway. We'd better just surrender now.

WTF.

Emigrate while you still can. How long until the USA's Frist Reich?

I don't agree. The Taliban is who we invaded Afghanistan to get rid of. They are dedicated to everything that we are supposedly struggling against. It's not like letting the Sunnis or Shiites be part of the government in Iraq -- it's like letting Saddam Hussein be part of the government in Iraq.

i just read about this in newsweek (the taliban part)...the short and not altogether unexpected story is taliban have filled the power vacuum left by "the most under-resourced nation-building effort in history" (quote from the bush special envoy to kabul who led usa rebuilding efforts in bosnia, kosovo, haiti, and somalia). the taliban have lots of cash, recruitment is easy, and they safely meet in broad daylight. mission accomplished!

I think there's a fundamental flaw in his plan here, and that is that Talibans unlike many guerillas, aren't going to accept being "part of a democracy", because they don't think democracy is a good way to run a country (and it isn't, it's just the least bad of the options).