Democrats assail Frist's Afghan comments

[4bucksagallon]

If there is a post on this already please indicate, I think this is big news.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15119949/

Frist, who was traveling in Afghanistan, said Monday that Taliban fighters were too numerous and too popular to be defeated. "You need to bring them into a more transparent type of government," he said. "And if that's accomplished, we'll be successful."

[Double T]

1. This has already been out there for a few days........

I responded as follow:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2297407&mesg_id=2297891

[4bucksagallon]

2. Thanks, I think this is big news about the cut and run republicans

[Double T]

3. Agreed!! The rethugs are in desperation overdrive...........

the wheels have fallen off their whole damn program.

[Dhalgren]

4. Of course Frist is right. Foreign occupiers can no more win a war

against an insurgency in Afghanistan than they can in Iraq. Guerrilla wars are ended by politics, not militaries. The Taliban are taking over large areas of Afghanistan - they control more of that country than does its President. The Taliban are brutal, narrow-minded, religious zealots who have not a humanitarian or humane bone in their collective bodies, but how can you force a country to not support them? The Taliban are resurgent because they are getting strong support from the Afghani population. How can this be remedied?

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. I' don't think the Taliban will ever be happy with just a "part" in the

government.

With them it's their way or the highway - and they will simply fight until they take over. They just go in and start killing people and hanging their corpses up to set an example. These are not nice people. And they are not looking for a compromise.

I don't think giving them a seat at the table is even feasible.

[Dhalgren]

6. Perhaps, but occupying Afghanistan until the end of time is not

an answer, either. If more of the population supports the Taliban than the "elected" government, what is the solution? Why do so many Afghanis support these monsters? We have to be smart enough to find an answer to this problem other than just killing more Afghanis than the Taliban does - or fewer - or whatever the hell it is we are doing over there...