This MIGHT even get me to sign up for Facebook.
I suppose the Ambassador Pickering link about Iran is topical: the Taliban should not have to get nuclear capability to get our attention.
We need partners in Afghanistan who are not drug lords.
And then there are all the other social disruptions and dynamics made worse by the war.
And a no-brainer as far as pushing Obama on SOMETHING.
I like it. Still not sure I can deal with Facebook, but I will give it a try.
DC
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Robert Naiman < naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:
> Just Foreign Policy did an alert this week based on the simple
> proposal that the Presidential candidates should acknowledge that the
> British government is saying that there should be talks with the
> Taliban. A pretty modest proposal. Defense Secretary Gates
> acknowledged it, and made moderately supportive comments. So did
> General Petraeus.
>
> I can't remember a time when we had such a low response on an alert. I
> strongly suspect that part of the reason is that the Taliban have been
> so demonized in US political discourse that even people who are
> pro-peace have a hard time thinking about the question rationally.
>
> So, of course, this just made me more determined to try to think of
> ways to inject this basic idea into the national political discourse.
>
> I just created a group on Facebook. The name of the group is:
>
> "I can find 1000 Americans who think the US should talk to the Taliban"
>
> and the link is:
>
> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=29038373969
>
> If you are on Facebook, please sign up and, if you are so inclined,
> spread. The sole purpose of the group is to add to the tally, and to
> create a space for people to
> state what should be obvious.
>
> --
> Robert Naiman
> Just Foreign Policy
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> Ambassador Pickering on Iran Talks and Multinational Enrichment
> http://youtube.com/watch?v=kGZFrFxVg8A
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