Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog: "What is going on lately? The news is topsy turvy to outright bizarre.
– Woke up this morning to find that we had lost another two American soldiers in Afghanistan yesterday in a battle with the resurgent Taliban…but that Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist thinks we should just negotiate with the Taliban and bring them into the Afghan government. Um…hello?!? Taliban equals al qaeda, Bill, or have you forgotten that for some reason because I, for damn sure, have not.
Appeasement will not work with militants, and it absolutely is not appropriate to abandon the Afghan people — again! — to these thugs who will go back to the dark ages and plotting more terrorism against the US. You think they've forgotten who they are, Sen. Frist? What in the hell were you thinking?!? (PS — does this make Frist an enemy combatant under Bush's newly passed GOP torture support bill?)..."
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