Joe Biden believes that only "5 percent of the Taliban is incorrigible, not susceptible to anything other than being defeated. Another 25 percent or so are not quite sure, in my view, the intensity of their commitment to the insurgency. And roughly 70 percent are involved because of the money, because of them being -- getting paid.".
Video embedded below. (From http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/03/genius-joe-biden-only-5-of-taliban-is.html)
Obama sort of built on this notion expressing a desire to reach out to the 'moderate Taliban'. In response the Taliban have called this "illogical".
""This does not require any response or reaction for this is illogical," Qari Mohammad Yousuf, a purported spokesman for the insurgent group ... "The Taliban are united, have one leader, one aim, one policy...I do not know why they are talking about moderate Taliban and what it means?""
More at http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-38433020090310.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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