We all knew the ISI backed the Taliban, but it's a bit disconcerting when "officials" come right out and say it:
Senior Pakistani officials are urging NATO countries to accept the Taliban and work toward a new coalition government in Kabul that might exclude President Karzai of Afghanistan.
Pakistan's foreign minister, Khurshid Kasuri, has said in private briefings to foreign ministers of some NATO member states that the Taliban are winning the war in Afghanistan and that NATO is bound to fail. He has advised against sending more troops.
Western ministers have been stunned. " Kasuri is basically asking NATO to surrender and to negotiate with the Taliban," one Western official who met the minister recently said.
Just like that nice Mr. Hitler, they can't be all bad, can they?
Funny that...if the Talib are "winning", how come they don't hold any territory, and they are getting mowed down as fast as they can shove recruits across the Pak-Afghan border?
see also: http://austinbay.net/blog/?p=1545
Posted by: Major John | November 30, 2006 at 11:33 AM