I've said multiple times no, I don't think we should. -----Original Message----- From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 3:51 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: is this true - Obama hinting at negotiating with the Taliban?
> TheScout wrote: > > I'd say in the short term it was bad, we could have pulled out sooner, > leaving them under another dictator. > Yeah, but my point was that one of Bremmer's big mistakes was dissing ALL Baath party members no matter what the in situ occupation plan was. The reason is because as the was trying to put in place a new government they eliminated all kinds of great candidates for positions simply because they were Baath party members which, as I pointed out, could be meaningless. So my question was shouldn't we avoid the same mistake in Afghanistan? In other words just because someone is a member of party A or party B shouldn't be sufficient to disqualify them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:291167 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
