Um, wait, weren’t we just at war with these people?
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan guerrilla war can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Taliban and their supporters into the Afghan government.
... "You need to bring them into a more transparent type of government," Frist said during a brief visit to a U.S. and Romanian military base in the southern Taliban stronghold of Qalat. "And if that's accomplished we'll be successful."
(AP wire report from the Washington Post)
Right. So, would this count as a humiliating defeat for the USA, or should we just not worry about who killed who and celebrate the glorious victory of our good friends the (spit!) Taliban, who will soon unite Afghanistan into a smoothly functional extreme patriarchy (and if we're lucky, they'll give permission to put that oil pipeline across the country, unlike the rude sendoff they gave us last time) ?