White House Now Saying Taliban Is Not The Enemy And Is Prepared To Accept Taliban Involvement In Afghanistan's Future

The New York Times reports that "President Obama’s national security team is moving to reframe its war strategy by emphasizing the campaign against Al Qaeda in Pakistan while arguing that the Taliban in Afghanistan do not pose a direct threat to the United States, officials said Wednesday... Mr. Obama’s commander there, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, has argued that success demands a substantial expansion of the American presence, up to 40,000 more troops. Any decision that provides less will expose the president to criticism, especially from Republicans, that his policy is a prescription for failure."

In fact, the Associated Press goes even further in reporting this story. The AP writes that "President Barack Obama is prepared to accept some Taliban involvement in Afghanistan's political future and appears inclined to send only as many more U.S. troops as needed to keep al-Qaida at bay, a senior administration official said Thursday... [T]he emerging thinking suggests that he would be very unlikely to favor a large military increase of the kind being advocated by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal."

If these reports are accurate there is nothing untrue in saying that Obama seems willing to surrender Afghanistan. He is willing to accept defeat. The Taliban harbored Al-Qaeda after 9-11, yet now the AP reports high officials are saying Obama is willing to accept involvement of the Taliban in the political future of that country? The President should not have campaigned on Afghanistan being a necessary war. He should be ashamed of himself. Why not allow Nazis involvement in Germany's future after WWII? If this is the attitude of the administration, then our country is being led by a dangerous and naive appeaser of the worst sort.

How Obama's tune has changed. Listen to what Obama had to say about the Taliban during the campaign:
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