Hillary Clinton urges Taliban to reject al-Qaeda allies

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned Taliban fighters in Afghanistan that they face a stark choice between war and peace, as US military pressure on them mounts.

"They cannot defeat us. And they cannot escape this choice," Mrs Clinton said in a speech in New York.

The US plans to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan this summer, with full withdrawal expected by 2014.

Currently, the US has about 78,000 troops there.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12508074

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Sounds like the old "you're either with us or against us" ploy.

[nalnn]

1. Sounds like

a possible attempt at outreach.

[former9thward]

2. "They can't defeat us"

No they can't. And we can't defeat them. But they can and will out wait us. Like Vietnam. We need to get out now and stop the utter waste of life and resources in that country. Hell, maybe after we leave they will like us in a couple decades or so just as the Vietnamese do.

[Kolesar]

3. Clinton has to clean up after Bush, the redux

Same sht, different decade

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, dipsydoodle.

[Catherina]

5. al-Qaeda? Are you that desperate Hillary? n/t

[No Elephants]

6. Whereupon, the Taliban thrashed her for appearing in public

burka-less and without her husband and for speaking in public.