Hear is a novel idea, lets pay the taliban off.

burniegoeasily · 10-29-2009, 10:08 AM

U.S. set to pay Taliban members to switch sides
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/...pay/index.html

I can see this as just another waste of money. And more disturbing is the idea of us providing funding for more weapons to be used agianst us. Now how many of you believe we can buy the loyalty of the Taliban? They are going to play us like a fiddle. Take our cash, buy weapons, then use those weapons on us. What a freaken Joke.

SWThomas · 10-29-2009, 11:39 AM

I heard about this the other day on the radio. I almost puked in my mouth.

Champlain Islander · 10-29-2009, 12:03 PM

Again...nothing new. We have been paying our enemies for years either directly or indirectly. Happens all the time in the middle east and south america. We put out so much foreign money there isn't any way of tracking it. I wonder why our taxes are so high and we are still broke.

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kevin1 · 10-29-2009, 12:36 PM

Here's a more novel idea: Let's steamroller their entire wretched country and get the hell out of it with our dignity.

C. Davis · 10-29-2009, 03:04 PM

This is right on par with the cash for clunkers scheme except here we have true clunkers, and the taliban will not be destroyed.

C. Davis

bigbulls · 10-29-2009, 05:22 PM

Why can't we just kill the bastards and be done with it?

What the hell is so damn hard to figure out? Kill every friggin one of them they come across, get the hell out of there and quit wasting billions of dollars on people that aren't going to do anything but throw away everything we are trying to accomplish over there.

Mr. Conservatism · 10-29-2009, 05:31 PM

Sure, pay them off.
They take your money and shoot you the first chance they get. Moronic scheme.

Swampdog · 10-30-2009, 03:10 AM

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Originally Posted by bigbulls

Why can't we just kill the bastards and be done with it?

What the hell is so damn hard to figure out? Kill every friggin one of them they come across, get the hell out of there and quit wasting billions of dollars on people that aren't going to do anything but throw away everything we are trying to accomplish over there.

AMEN Brother AMEN.You know we have not been able to do that since WWII.The friggin television wont let us.

The Rev · 10-30-2009, 04:24 AM

How about instead of sending money we send more troops and wipe them off the face of the earth!

Champlain Islander · 10-30-2009, 05:24 AM

Or....just pull out and with the troops goes the money. Democracy won't ever take hold there and after we leave it will fall back to a second rate third world country. If there has to be war it will develop soon enough with some of their neighboring countries. That produces a best case scenario.... they kill themselves.