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Afghanistan
Taliban can not and will not win the conflict on the battlefield: Kerry
2016-10-06
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The US Secretary State of John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
 has said the Talibs group in Afghanistan can not and will not be able to win the conflict on the battlefield.
And Jahwn knows his battlefields...
Kerry delivered the message during his speech at an international conference on Afghanistan and the following the conclusion of a peace deal between Hezb-e-Islami led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil...
 and the Afghan government.

He said the peace deal with Hekmatyar could be a model for reconciliation with the Taliban, insisting that the commanders of Hekmatyar must cease violence, cut ties with terrorist groups and accept the Afghan constitutions’s rights for women and minorities.

"The message from every person here today to the Taliban would be: Take note," Kerry said, adding that the Taliban is still "trying to test the Afghan government’s resolve."

Kerry further added that "There is a path toward an honorable end to the conflict that the Taliban have waged." However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
 he insisted that "It is a conflict they cannot and will not be won on the battlefield. A political settlement negotiated with the Afghan government is the only way to end the fighting, ensure lasting stability and achieve a full drawdown ultimately of international military forces, which is their goal."
Posted by:Fred

#8  Wish he had said that ten years ago.
Posted by: Tennessee   2016-10-06 22:53  

#7  They can't win on the battlefield. Jawn will see to it that they win at the negotiating table, just like he did with Iran.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2016-10-06 15:26  

#6  Why are you engaged in negotiating/talking with them then?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-10-06 09:33  

#5  They cannot win on the battlefield. Oh, now I see why we are not fighting them there.
Posted by: Beau   2016-10-06 09:13  

#4   The Democrats had this steely eyed dynamo as their Presidential choice at one time...along with John ( Breck Boy ) Edwards...a man who cheated on his wife as she was dying of Cancer.

Where do they find these Buboes?
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Obama himself the" Red Line " Man.

And Russia will take Aleppo while the entire Middle East watches and knows whose word matters and whose word doesn't mean squat.
Winners and Losers, it isn't hard to tell.
Posted by: Glase Bluetooth5522   2016-10-06 07:21  

#3  "There is a path toward an honorable end to the conflict that the Taliban have waged."

Straight from the Paris Peace Accords

Posted by: Skidmark   2016-10-06 01:44  

#2  Jawn Jawn - making Hillary! look good by comparison.
Posted by: Raj   2016-10-06 01:02  

#1  Why the hell would they need to 'win' it when your quite likely to simply give it to them you moron?

Just like to gave Iran permission to build their nuclear bomb.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2016-10-06 00:33  

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