AFGHANISTAN - Oct 18 - Don't Cave In To The Taliban.

APS Diplomat Recorder | October 20, 2007 | Copyright

As recently as Aug. 7, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan declares the Taliban a "defeated" and "spent" terrorist force, and vows publicly, together with President George W. Bush, to finish off the militia. But barely seven weeks later, Karzai has publicly pleaded with the reclusive Taliban leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, and a notoriously murderous warlord leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, to meet with him for peace talks. Referring to them as "Esteemed Mullah, sir" and "Esteemed Hekmatyar, sir", he promised them government positions to bring them on board. The Taliban has ...

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