{"id":1014,"date":"2004-12-02T13:22:32","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T17:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2004-12-02T13:22:32","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T17:22:32","slug":"flip-flop-bush-admin-announces-new-afghan-appeasement-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1014","title":{"rendered":"FLIP-FLOP: Bush Admin Announces New Afghan Appeasement Policy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a stunning flip-flop from their pre-election rhetoric, the Bush Administration appears to have begun a new appeasement policy for Taliban rebels in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

The BBC is reporting<\/a> the U.S. amabassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, has announced in a recent Kabul press conference that Taliban fighters who give up their arms and pledge their allegiance would be allowed to go free:<\/p>\n

It is not clear on what legal basis Mr Khalilzad, in his role as a representative of a foreign country, made his offer to the Taleban.
\n…
\n“There’s no need to fight, to stay in the mountains,” he said. “Afghanistan has entered a new stage.”<\/p>\n

Taleban fighters should pledge allegiance to the government of President Hamid Karzai. <\/p>\n

“In return, they will not be punished,” Mr Khalilzad promised.<\/p><\/div>\n

The “wildly successful” war in Afghanistan, where 18,000 U.S. troops are still stationed, began well over three years ago.<\/p>\n

Neither Mullah Omar, the head of the Taliban regime at the time of the U.S.-lead invasion, nor Osama bin Laden, the purported target of that attack have been either captured or killed as of this posting.<\/p>\n

Appeaser George W. Bush, who once claimed that we would capture bin Laden “dead or alive”, has more recently stated<\/a> that he is “truly…not that concerned about him”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a stunning flip-flop from their pre-election rhetoric, the Bush Administration appears to have begun a new appeasement policy for Taliban rebels in Afghanistan. The BBC is reporting the U.S. amabassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, has announced in a recent Kabul press conference that Taliban fighters who give up their arms and pledge their allegiance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}