“OTTAWA — Canada should withdraw its troops from the current mission in southern Afghanistan and invite Taliban fighters to peace talks, NDP Leader Jack Layton said yesterday.”
Thanks for saying this, Jack. I’m sure you will be ridiculed and criticized and called an appeaser and God knows what else, but it’s about time somebody in Ottawa raised this option.
I don’t want to claim I’m ahead of my time, but I asked these questions back on 4 August...
"Is anyone negotiating with these Taliban guys? And if not, why not? And who is funding them? The money’s coming from somewhere. You don’t carry out an insurgency without money. Are we talking to those doing the funding? Negotiations are the only way to settle things. "
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