Friday, January 22, 2010

Karzai seeking money for taliban reintegration program

Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai will be asking international donors to put up money for a new plan to flip mid level taliban to Karzai's government.

This is the wrong way to win the war in Afghanistan. Instead of throwing money at the taliban in the hopes they'll stop blowing themselves up we should just kill them.

What safety guards does Karzai have in place to insure that the taliban who flip to our side aren't really double agents that will shoot our troops in the back? Reuters

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai will present a plan to donors next week aimed at pulling in lower to mid-level Taliban fighters but he faces scepticism over whether it will be any better than previous efforts.[...]

The plan, said Stanekzai, was to offer protection to insurgents who gave themselves in and to ensure they got jobs that prevented them from a return to "planting bombs."

"This will be a broader, detailed program and it will be implemented at all levels ... They need to be able to join the peace process with dignity," he told Reuters in an interview this week.

Previous efforts to win over Taliban fighters failed because little attempt was made to offer protection or financial incentives.

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