{"id":36298,"date":"2013-06-18T12:20:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T16:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36298"},"modified":"2013-06-18T12:20:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T16:20:11","slug":"us-to-begin-peace-talks-with-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36298","title":{"rendered":"US to begin peace talks with Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/us-to-begin-peace-talks-with-taliban-1.226412\">Associated Press<\/a> has a short article that announces that the US is about begin &#8220;peace talks&#8221; with the Taliban in Qatar;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Senior Obama administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record, described the Taliban\u2019s move to open a political office Tuesday in Doha as a stepping stone to full Taliban renouncement of al-Qaida.<\/p>\n<p>In Doha, a Qatari official confirmed that the Taliban office was open.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Might as well, we&#8217;re not committed to killing them, we might as well bore them to death with a string of promises they can break. These are the same people who throw acid in the faces of pre-teen girls because the girls attend school. They shoot girls in the face when the girls are laying on the sidewalk. They shove explosives up their asses to make political statements. But we think we can talk them into being peaceful?<\/p>\n<p>What exactly is going to bind them to these &#8220;peace talks&#8221;? We threatened the North Vietnamese with intervention if they invaded the South and then didn&#8217;t have the testicular fortitude to back that threat up with force. Do you think the same threat will scare the Taliban into being rational actors? Why even go through the motions of looking like a beaten giant &#8211; just hand over the country and be done with it. Or put Claymores under the negotiating table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press has a short article that announces that the US is about begin &#8220;peace &hellip; <a title=\"US to begin peace talks with Taliban\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36298\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US to begin peace talks with 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-36298","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\/36298","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=36298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}