{"id":28131,"date":"2011-12-30T13:47:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T17:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28131"},"modified":"2011-12-30T14:27:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T18:27:28","slug":"concessions-for-peace-talks-with-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28131","title":{"rendered":"Concessions for peace talks with the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/12\/30\/us-aims-for-2012-talks-with-taliban-after-hiatus\/\">Fox News<\/a>, the Obama Administration is deciding whether or not they should give the Taliban one of their commanders now being held in Guantanamo as an incentive for peace talks;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A senior U.S. official confirmed to Fox News that Mullah Mohammed Fazl is among the prisoners being considered for release. Held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002, Fazl was suspected in sectarian killings of Shiite Muslims before the U.S. invasion that toppled the Taliban government in Afghanistan in 2001. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, that&#8217;s not all, they&#8217;re also thinking about setting up some demilitarized zones as a concession to the people who throw acid in the faces of pre-adolescent girls. Those zones worked so well in Vietnam and between the Koreas, how could they not be considered in Afghanistan?<\/p>\n<p>And, oh, yeah, the <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.stripes.com\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_US_AFGHANISTAN_TALIBAN?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2011-12-30-00-37-39\">Taliban should have a headquarters<\/a> financed by American tax payers, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those steps were to be matched by assurances from at least part of the Taliban leadership that the insurgents would cut ties with al-Qaida, accept the elected civilian government of Afghanistan and bargain in good faith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, this should work well. Do those mutts even know what &#8220;good faith&#8221; means? These are people who bomb market places, for Pete&#8217;s sake.<\/p>\n<p>Remember when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15745&#038;cpage=1#comment-159516\">the embassy said there were no peace talks<\/a>, now we&#8217;re discussing concessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Fox News, the Obama Administration is deciding whether or not they should give the &hellip; <a title=\"Concessions for peace talks with the Taliban\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28131\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Concessions for peace talks with the Taliban<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}