Afghans reintegrating Taliban?

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Malcolm
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What the hell?
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is to announce details of a plan to reintegrate thousands of lower- to mid-level Taliban fighters
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The United States has expressed support for the programme

Seriously, what the hell? Didn't we spend the past decade making sure they didn't come to power again? May as well've fed the cash for the military ops into a fucking wood chipper.



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If you read the article, a lot of them admit under interrogation that they don't agree with the Taliban leadership or Al Quada.

Giving people who followed the wrong path too long an out, particularly if they don't believe in their cause is smart. It'll remove a lot of the Taliban's ability to fight.

Sure, it'll be simple for their side to sneak in a suicide bomber or two, but they're hoping they deplete the Taliban of enough forces to make the effort worth it.
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No allowing former Confederates to participate in the Reconstruction really extended the process.
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GORDON wrote:No allowing former Confederates to participate in the Reconstruction really extended the process.
I've got zero faith in the current version of the Afghan gov't to anything on the scale of post Civil War Reconstruction.
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