Vice President Biden (Photo from LA Times)From CQ Politics/Spytalk:
Vice President Joseph R. Biden more than backed up his boss's view Tuesday that U.S. and NATO troops are not winning the war in Afghanistan.
"We are not now winning the war, but the war is far from lost," Biden told a news conference in Brussels today after three hours of talks with NATO allies.
But an assertion by Biden that 70 percent of Taliban guerrillas could be persuaded to stop fighting or turn against their Afghan brothers-in-arms drew scoffs from experts in Kabul.
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My Comment: The Taliban spokesman is probably right when he labeled President Obama's musings about reaching out to the Taliban as illogical. I find it hard to believe that a majority of the Afghan population will embrace outsiders when their entire history has been one to kick out outsiders. But who knows .... the same was said about Iraq a few years ago.
So ... cough cough (this is not easy for me to say) .... Vice President Biden is probably right when he said ...."Reconciliation With Taliban Worth Trying"
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