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FRIST THINKS TALIBAN GUERILLAS SHOULD BE BROUGHT INTO AFGHAN GOVERNMENT

by QuestionGirl • 5:46 pm

Ok, someone explain to me……why would he want to do this with the Taliban, yet it’s not ok to recognize Hezbollah and Hamas? Huh?

By Jim Krane
Associated Press
Last updated 03:36pm (Mla time) 10/03/2006

QALAT, Afghanistan — US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan war against Taliban guerrillas can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Islamic militia and its supporters into the Afghan government.

The Tennessee Republican said he learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support to be defeated on the battlefield.

“You need to bring them into a more transparent type of government,” Frist said during a brief visit to a US and Romanian military base in the southern Taliban stronghold of Qalat. “And if that’s accomplished, we’ll be successful.”