Taliban Peace Strategy - more than the US or Brits have put forward!

[Parnella]

Apologies for offering a view contrary to the general bashing of all things Islamic on the site, but is this unreasonable?

Taliban Leader Mullah Omar Urges Seven Point Plan for Peace - NAM

Editor's Note: While President-elect Barack Obama vows to pull back from Iraq and focus military action on Afghanistan, Taliban leader Mullah Omar is working hard to negotiate his way out of this situation. Jalal Ghazi is the associate producer of the Peabody Award-winning show "Mosaic: World News from the Middle East," and writer of the column Eye on Arab Media for New America Media.


"The fifth point is replacing NATO forces with peacekeeping forces from Muslim countries. Qurishi told Press TV that even if armies were brought from Muslim countries, there will still be problems. He explained, "For this to work, the armies can't be brought from immediate Muslims countries, such as Pakistan, Iran or Turkey…They have to be brought from countries like Jordan, Algeria and Egypt."

"Qurishi believed that the U.S. would agree to have a Muslim peacekeeping forces from allied Muslim countries, but that might pose a problem to one of the six neighboring countries which include China, Pakistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan."

What this won't guarantee is that US corporate interests in the mid-East are maximised, it will not therefore be considered.

[seabhcan]

Back when the soviet Union was in Afghanistan, most of their troops were actually Muslims from central asia.

The Taleban happily took US arms, money and training in order to kill these muslim peacekeepers.

[PhoenixIreland]

I knew we were wrong about the Taliban, they were actually just mis understood sweet hearts, the poor pets, if we'd only gave them a chance...

I'm sure if we give them some forever friends bears and leave the country, when they take back over they won't drag the place into the 11th century again while keeping every luxury they deny their people for themselves.
Then they'll totally be our BFF's, they're will be no training camps or anything.

Super Cereal!

Do you really think the Jordanian or Egyptian armies are even CLOSE to being well trained or well equipped enough to handle Afghanistan?
(I assume the Taliban know they're not, and thus it will be much easier for them to take over again)

The Taliban have learned well from the Americans, the "give the third world soldiers some blue helmets then give them a job they will inevitably fail due to a straight jacket mandate, poor training, poor numbers and poor equipment" trick is usually one the US pulls.

[CelticAtheist]

Yes, let's leave Afghanistan to return its #1 sh*thole of the world position under tyrannical fundamentalist nutters...

[Parnella]

Yes, let's leave Afghanistan to return its #1 sh*thole of the world position under tyrannical fundamentalist nutters...

Yes, where as the rulers of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan etc. are such exemplary democrats that the US gladly leaves them to get on with things. Nothing at all to do with energy resources.

The Taliban are scum but they are only scum to the US since 911, not that ANY Taliban policies changed after 911 but the US view of them did of course change, prior to this, they were business partners. Who are the real tyrants ??

[CelticAtheist]

Yes, where as the rulers of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan etc. are such exemplary democrats that the US gladly leaves them to get on with things. Nothing at all to do with energy resources.

I'd see the US have the Saudis by the balls.
What a day for democracy that would be!

[PhoenixIreland]

Yes, where as the rulers of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan etc. are such exemplary democrats that the US gladly leaves them to get on with things. Nothing at all to do with energy resources.

The Taliban are scum but they are only scum to the US since 911, not that ANY Taliban policies changed after 911 but the US view of them did of course change, prior to this, they were business partners. Who are the real tyrants ??

The Taliban...seriously...read up on them, they're awful wan kers.

and please, spare me the cliched "well terrorism is causing terror loike so if you think about it loike that means the US are also using terrorism, ain't I oh so smort for thinking of that, I bet I'm the first one to think of that" (lifts spliff up to face past the che poster)

[CelticAtheist]

The Taliban are scum but they are only scum to the US since 911, not that ANY Taliban policies changed after 911 but the US view of them did of course change, prior to this, they were business partners. Who are the real tyrants ??

I'm not a fan of US foreign policy either, but I'd have them in a heartbeat over the Taliban.
Or the Saudis.

[Rocky]

Apologies for offering a view contrary to the general bashing of all things Islamic on the site, but is this unreasonable?

Taliban Leader Mullah Omar Urges Seven Point Plan for Peace - NAM

Editor's Note: While President-elect Barack Obama vows to pull back from Iraq and focus military action on Afghanistan, Taliban leader Mullah Omar is working hard to negotiate his way out of this situation. Jalal Ghazi is the associate producer of the Peabody Award-winning show "Mosaic: World News from the Middle East," and writer of the column Eye on Arab Media for New America Media.


"The fifth point is replacing NATO forces with peacekeeping forces from Muslim countries. Qurishi told Press TV that even if armies were brought from Muslim countries, there will still be problems. He explained, "For this to work, the armies can't be brought from immediate Muslims countries, such as Pakistan, Iran or Turkey…They have to be brought from countries like Jordan, Algeria and Egypt."

"Qurishi believed that the U.S. would agree to have a Muslim peacekeeping forces from allied Muslim countries, but that might pose a problem to one of the six neighboring countries which include China, Pakistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan."

What this won't guarantee is that US corporate interests in the mid-East are maximised, it will not therefore be considered.

It won't be considered because there would be no need for any foreign troops if the Taliban agreed to peace. Basically their proposal seems to be that they want to change their opposition from highly trained and well funded NATO troops to badly trained and badly funded Asian troops. The Afghanistan army has got loads of help from NATO and would be able to maintain order in the country, if the Taliban made peace.

Part of me would say that NATO and the Afghanistan government should start talking to the Taliban and try to work out some deal, but then I remember that they were quite simply evil when they ran Afghanistan and that it's very difficult to see it being possible to make any deal with people like that.

[cHeal]

The Taliban...seriously...read up on them, they're awful wan kers.

and please, spare me the cliched "well terrorism is causing terror loike so if you think about it loike that means the US are also using terrorism, ain't I oh so smort for thinking of that, I bet I'm the first one to think of that" (lifts spliff up to face past the che poster)

I definitely was the first person to think of that.