Clueless politicians - the UK Prime Minister

Words fail... From The Evening Standard:

Brown says he will negotiate with Taliban to end war in Afghanistan
Gordon Brown will announce today that he intends to talk to the Taliban in a bid to end the war in Afghanistan.

In a major shift in UK foreign policy the Prime Minister is expected to tell the Commons today that negotiation is the only way to bring peace to the war torn country.

This year has been the deadliest in Afghanistan since the U.S. led invasion of 2001.

Since January more than 6,200 people have been killed including 40 British soldiers. In all, 86 British soldiers have died during the campaign which was launched to crush Al Qaeda and the Taliban following the September 11 outrage in America.

The change of tack will be seen as the latest attempt by the prime minister to distance himself from the foreign policy of Tony Blair and his ally George Bush.

In a landmark statement in the Commons he will say that the Cabinet has agreed a three pronged strategy for Afghanistan which will security guaranteed by NATO and the Afghan national army followed by economic and political development in the country.

The third prong of the plan is likely to be most controversial - to engage Taliban leaders in constructive dialogue.

A senior source said last night: "We need to ask who are we fighting? Do we need to fight them - can we be talking to them?"

This idiot will go down in history as a worse scumbag than Neville Chamberlain Right now, the Taliban is on the ropes. We need to push a bit more to defeat them but defeat is well within our grasp. You cannot just hand the keys over to the Afghan national army as they will become infiltrated in short order. The change of power has to come from within as General David Petraeus so wisely realized -- it is a slow process, winning the hearts and minds of a nation but it is working and conditions in Iraq have improved significantly. Brown wants to take Afghanistan back into the stone ages. He is a leader who simply does not "get" his enemy.

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