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{Column: Happy days are here again for the Taliban}
Whatever the White House hoped to achieve by officially opening a foreign office for the Taliban in Qatar last week, one thing that is now immediately and hideously obvious is that President Barack Obama can鈥檛 even carry off a disgraceful capitulation to a gang of medieval throat-slitters without making a complete cock-up of the whole thing.Another thing that will be obvious to even the most casual observer is that the singular achievement of the new American 鈥淎f-Pak鈥?policy,[url=http://www.toms-shoes-sale.com]Toms Shoes Outlet[/url],[url=http://www.toms-shoes-sale.com]Toms Shoes Outlet[/url], which the U.S. State Department can鈥檛 yet manage to explain properly to itself let alone to anyone else,[url=http://www.toms-shoes-sale.com]Toms Shoes Sale[/url],[url=http://www.toms-shoes-sale.com]Toms Shoes Sale[/url], is that the Taliban haven鈥檛 had it this good since their salad days before Sept. 11,[url=http://www.toms-shoes-sale.com]Cheap Toms[/url], 2001.The main thing behind last week鈥檚 ribbon-cutting danse macabre is an Obama-endorsed initiative led by Pakistan鈥檚 gruesome Inter-Services Intelligence agency that aims to re-establish the political credentials and the diplomatic bona fides of the Quetta Shura Taliban and its various mutations and offspring, including the Terik-e-Taliban and the Taliban Haqqani wing.The Talibs weren鈥檛 supposed to be quite so openly thrilled with their good fortune last week, grinning for the cameras and hoisting their war banner on a flagpole and handing out business cards with 鈥淚slamic Emirate of Afghanistan鈥?printed on them and generally carrying on as though their new headquarters was an embassy of Afghanistan鈥檚 American-endorsed government-in-waiting. The White House had hoped to maintain the fiction that the event was merely a step toward a negotiated peace deal in Afghanistan, but the Taliban just couldn鈥檛 be made to behave.Back in Kabul, President Hamid Karzai quite understandably blew a gasket.If you wanted, for argument鈥檚 sake you could concede outright pretty well all the puerile clich茅s that attend to the peace-talks racket 鈥?the 鈥渨ar in Afghanistan鈥?can鈥檛 go on forever, the United States shouldn鈥檛 be the world鈥檚 policeman,[url=http://www.toms-shoes-sale.com]Cheap Toms[/url], Americans are war-weary, the time has come for nation-building at home, all wars end in negotiations, blah blah blah 鈥?and it still wouldn鈥檛 be enough to paper over the staggering idiocies and the myriad indecencies at work in the Obama administration鈥檚 connivings in Qatar last week.Last Tuesday in Washington, the State Department鈥檚 Jennifer Psaki explained to reporters that all those things the United States had once called 鈥減reconditions鈥?to any theoretical Afghan-led peace talks 鈥?that the Taliban should renounce al-Qaida, abandon terror, accept the Afghan constitution, respect women鈥檚 rights 鈥?were now to be thought of as 鈥渆nd goals鈥?in direct talks between the U.S. and the Taliban leadership. As for whether the State Department still considered the Taliban to be terrorists, even, Psaki said she was 鈥渘ot sure.鈥?/p> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}All this stands in stark contrast to the Afghanpolicy that Janan Mosazai, spokesperson for Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry, setout in detail for me on Wednesday鈥淭he Afghan government will continue to fight those Taliban who are against the peace, security and prosperity of the Afghan people,鈥?Mosazai told me. But the Afghan government will negotiate with Talibs who commit themselves to peace, national unity, the constitutional democratic order 鈥渁nd the historic achievements of the past decade, including the rights and freedoms of all Afghans, men and women.鈥?/p>
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