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Taliban Are Not Terrorists, or So Says the White House
Posted: Jan 30, 2015
They act like terrorists, they regularly kill civilians like terrorists, but the White House does not consider the Afghan Taliban to be a terrorist group. “They do carry out tactics that are akin to terrorism. They do pursue terror attacks in an effort to try to advance their agenda,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest explained today, but “they have a different classification.” Link: http://news.yahoo.com/taliban-not-terrorists-says-white-house-220922680.html This president needs some serious mental help!;
Taliban kills 3 Americans at Kabul airport - ProMT
[ In Reply To ..]The Taliban on Friday claimed responsibility for an apparent "insider attack" at Kabul airport in which three American contractors and an Afghan were killed.
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/three-us-contractors-killed-insider-attack-kabul-195831157.html
It is quite reassuring that the president does not consider the Taliban a terrorist group, right?
Semantics and context-look that up in Funk&Wagnalls - Word Nerd
[ In Reply To ..]ABC news:
The White House does not call the Afghan Taliban a terrorist organization, Earnest explained, because they are “different than an organization like al Qaeda that has a much broader global aspiration to carry out acts of violence and acts of terror against Americans and American interests all around the globe.”
The issue has come up because the White House insisted on Wednesday that a prisoner exchange between Jordan and ISIS would be different than the prisoner exchange the United States made last year with the Taliban to gain the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
“Our policy is that we don't pay ransom. We don't give concessions to terrorist organizations,” Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz said Wednesday. “This is a longstanding policy that predates this administration. And it's also one that we've communicated to our friends and allies across the world.”
Schultz explained that the exchange the United States made with the Taliban -- releasing five Taliban prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in exchange for the release of Sgt. Bergdahl -- was consistent with that policy because the Taliban is an “armed insurgency” and not a terrorist organization.
As usual it is all about history - Background on Afghanistan
[ In Reply To ..]And accusing other people of needing mental help doesn't really answer the questions.
It's not about history. - NPC
[ In Reply To ..]It's about appeasement and cowardice by this administration.
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