Karzai offers protection to Taliban leader for negotiation

A promise he won't be able to keep.

this has always been the way things had to work out eventually . Karzai has some balls . respect .

He's gone rogue and spat on the American goliath!

How do you negotiate with a terrorist? How can you believe his promises?
It's impossible!

Karzai is like a fisherman, taking his time wondering who will take the bait.

This is just a politcal move on karzais part he knows he is a american puppet he cant make any promise ... he cant get out of Kabul without ameican protection lol or even with

If his intentions are peaceful, and for a better future for his country, I don't see any problem with it. I like the fact that he's completely disregarding the western influence an doing what he thinks is best to. Hopefully it'll pan out OK.

Karzai shows his true colors:

TALIBAN LOVER.

It figures...oh let's make peace with the very people who made it possible for 9/11 to occur?

What's next?

Give them some American land?

This just doesn't feel right. First we have to protect them from the Taliban, now they want to be in bed with them? Seems like 100 steps back!

so if you can't beat 'em, join 'em? hmm.

Perhaps HK has a plan to protect the murderer MO on the way in and then to case him on the way out which will hopefully lead the world to the murderer OBL's doorstep. Hopefully HK requested permission from NATO before he made this offer.

fhassan, the purpose for attacking and occupying Afghanistan never was to get Osama bin Laden (who died in December 2001) - we were lied to about Afghanistan just as much as we were lied to about Iraq.

The war on Afghanistan was planned months before 9/11 - it was planned for mid-October 2001 at the latest, and the infrastructure and logistics were in place before 9/11.

The real reason for this illegal war of aggression is that the Taliban had refused to allow pipelines to be built by Unocal across Afghanistan to bring oil and natural gas from the Caspian Sea Basin to Pakistan (Karachi, a huge port on the Arabian Sea/Indian Ocean) and India.

Hamid Karzai was a former consultant with Unocal. As soon as he was placed in power by the USA and forced "elections", he signed the contract for the pipelines - it was practically the first thing he did.

Our men have been killing and been killed there solely to allow for the pipeline to be built, and then to protect it, which means that our militaries would remain in Afghanistan for decades.

ashcatash writes,

"How do you negotiate with a terrorist? How can you believe his promises? It's impossible!"

Is it?

Why not negotiate with a terrorist knowing that's his mentality? Trust his word? Why? Who said you have to? This country isn't overloaded with law firms because nobody ever thinks - 'I wonder what would happen if I broke this covenant?'

Why not set conditions on any deal made that harms him more from breaking the deal than he can possibly benefit from?

You want "Impossible?"

The economic pit we've fallen into looks all but insoluble. Do you seriously believe that anyone will [or should] just let it get worse and do nothing?

How can he guarantee Mullah Omar's safety when he can't even guarantee is own?

its funny how people sitting across the global perceive mullah omar as a terrorist while 85 % of the people living in afghanistan think america is the terrorist ...lol should we decide or the people who need to live in that situation decide .......