I don't think the Bush Assministration planned for this.
Afghanistan's government should hold direct talks with the resurgent Taliban and other opposition forces, the Afghan senate said in a formal vote on Tuesday, in a bid to end the rising bloodshed in the country.
The senate, the upper house of the Afghan parliament, also urged Western troops in the U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces to halt the hunt for Taliban fighters and other militants.
The motion comes at a time of rising public discontent with the government of President Hamid Karzai over civilian casualties at the hands of Western troops, corruption and the failure to turn billions of dollars in aid into better livelihoods.
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just imagine where afganistan would be if georgie had not gone to iWaq, but actually 'finished' the job in afganistan.
now he has lost 2 'wars'.
Posted by: pansypoo | May 08, 2007 at 10:22
Point of information - is it correct that "senate" is not capitalized in the original article, or is this an (of course, accidental) oversight? Seems to me it would be a proper noun? I ask because if U.S. houses of government were printed in lowercase, I think some might take offense.
Yeah, because, ya know, there obviously isn't anything else for me to worry about right now...
Just sayin'.
Posted by: WitchWay11 | May 08, 2007 at 10:57