| July 2010 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
Before we get to Obama's offer of help to the Taliban, let's review who the Taliban are.
From Infoplease.com:
The Taliban's popularity with the Afghan people surprised the country's other warring factions. Many Afghans, weary of conflict and anarchy, were relieved to see corrupt and often brutal warlords replaced by the devout Taliban, who had some success in eliminating corruption, restoring peace, and allowing commerce to resume.
The Taliban, under the direction of Mullah Muhammad Omar, brought about this order through the institution of a very strict interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law. Public executions and punishments (such as floggings) became regular events at Afghan soccer stadiums. Frivolous activities, like kite-flying, were outlawed. In order to root out "non-Islamic" influence, television, music, and the Internet were banned. Men were required to wear beards, and subjected to beatings if they didn't.
Most shocking to the West was the Taliban's treatment of women. When the Taliban took Kabul, they immediately forbade girls to go to school. Moreover, women were barred from working outside the home, precipitating a crisis in healthcare and education. Women were also prohibited from leaving their home without a male relative—those that did so risked being beaten, even shot, by officers of the "ministry for the protection of virtue and prevention of vice." A woman caught wearing fingernail polish may have had her fingertips chopped off. All this, according to the Taliban, was to safeguard women and their honor.
.....The Taliban allowed terrorist organizations to run training camps in their territory and, from 1994 to at least 2001, provided refuge for Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organization. The relationship between the Taliban and bin Laden is close, even familial—bin Laden fought with the mujahideen, has financed the Taliban, and has reportedly married one of his daughters to Mullah Muhammad Omar.
The Taliban destroyed treasures of the world - the ancient statues of Buddha. From USA Today, 2001:
One of the Buddhas that have been destroyed. The two black figures in the center near the bottom are men who are sitting down.
In Afghanistan recently, supreme Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar issued an edict against un-Islamic graven images, which means all idolatrous images of humans and animals. As a result, the Taliban are destroying all ancient sculptures. Explosives, tanks, and anti-aircraft weapons blew apart two colossal images of the Buddha in Bamiyan Province, 230 kilometers (150 miles) from the capital of Kabul.
The reason we went into Afghanistan in the first place was because the Taliban, who were running Afghanistan, had aided Bin Laden, who had just killed 3,000 Americans on 9-11. From Wikipedia:
The War in Afghanistan, which began on October 7, 2001 as the U.S. military's Operation Enduring Freedom and the British military's Operation Herrick, was launched in response to the September 11 attacks.
The stated aim of the invasion was to find Osama bin Laden and other high-ranking Al-Qaeda members and put them on trial, to destroy the whole organization of Al-Qaeda, and to remove the Taliban regime which supported and gave safe harbor to Al-Qaeda.
To sum up: The Taliban supported Al-Qaeda, and have a tight bond to Bin Laden - the enemies of America who killed 3,000 Americans on 9-11.
So now what's Obama proposing? Merely to take their side against the U.S. army and put them back into involvement with the political future of Afghanistan - when the entire mission of the U.S. army in going into Afghanistan, was to get rid of the Taliban.
Does that sound impossible? From FoxNews and AP:
WASHINGTON -- President Obama is inclined to send only as many more U.S. troops to Afghanistan as are needed to keep Al Qaeda at bay, a senior administration official said.
The official, in an interview with The Associated Press, also added that the president is prepared to accept some Taliban involvement in Afghanistan's political future, reiterating what Obama said in March.
The assessment comes from an official who has been involved in the president's discussions with his war council about Afghanistan strategy.
Let's list the outrages:
How many different ways can Obama attack the interests of the American people before he utterly exposes himself as one who can no longer be trusted to lead?
#2Well well, Obama follows in Jimmy Carter's footsteps with a Nobel Peace Prize. Why would anyone want an award that Carter had won?
If you read the above, you see that the Taliban and Al Qaeda are one and the same. But Obama somehow does not understand this, with his proclamation that the Taliban is ok but Al Qaeda is the focus.
Obama can take pride in following in Carter's footsteps. Carter is a poster boy for the aphorism: "Wisdom does not necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself."
#3I heard the Taliban has infiltrated the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize committee and made a deal to give Obama $1.5 milllion and the prize if he leaves the Taliban alone. Obama's vain Chicago response was thanks and lets do this again next year.
#4Well, he got the award because he is not George Bush, and because Liberals in Europe see him as neutering the United States, both economically and by appeasing evil. And oh, they have thrown in the Nobel Economic prize??? So if you do something really horribly, you get this award? He and his liberal Acorn America - hating cronies destroys the American economy and the rest of the world suffers, and he gets an award? Wow. And I forgot that Arafat got that stupid award as well.
What the Norweigans and the rest of Socialized Europe does not seem to realize is that it is only because of a strong America that they are free today. We bailed them out in WWI, and if Japan had not attacked Pearl Harbor, the Liberals would have kept us out of WWII, and the result would have likely been different.
If you picked up on it a day or so ago, the Taliban released a statement to the effect that "We are not a threat to anyone in Afghanistan, if you withdraw troops we will not be a threat." (Nevermind 9/11). This to blunt the argument that we must fight radical Islam there or it is threat here. The radicals sense how weak this administration is and so try to put out these little suggestions.
Europe is going to eventually be forced to realize what a threat Islam is to them. Osama has already threatned once-proud Germany to pull their troops out of Afganistan or else. The European soldiers in Afganistan for the most part don't want to be there and refuse to fight, won't go out after dark, basically useless. Evil senses weakness, and they know their numbers are increasing and Europe's are decreasing. One word: Demographics. And the Europeans they do have have become Liberals, nothing like the Franks and Norsemen of centuries past. In your lifetime, the Europe you know now may exist only in the history books.
One loose end, one thing that makes no sense at all: Jews voted for Obama. They voted for their enemy.
Duuude that's totally gnarly
I heard Obama he's like actually a chinese guy who's been alive for hundreds of years who can levitate and stuff