British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wants To Negotiate With The Taliban
My question is: What exactly does he hope to accomplish by negotiating with terrorist monsters?
Think about it logically for a moment. The divide causing the conflict in Afghanistan breaks down like this: Western forces want a safe, secure and democratic Afghanistan while the Taliban wants a return to a theocratic regime complete with roving squads of thugs who beat women for not dressing or behaving appropriately.
Where’s the common ground? Where’s the room for talks? How do you negotiate with people who, literally, hate your culture and everything you stand for? Even things as universally desirable as representative government?
You can’t, which is why Brown’s desire for “talks” with the Taliban is little more than a bunch of tripe from a naive peacenik. If it were possible to negotiate with the Taliban it would have happened by now, but the group is little more than a loose grouping of religious zealots without enough control of its own factions to enforce a cease fire if it even wanted to.













