"Moderate" is a relative term. I'm sure the Taliban are not monolithic (no organization is). There must be moderates.
--- On Sun, 4/12/09, Sujeet Bhatt <sujeet.bhatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Sujeet Bhatt <sujeet.bhatt at gmail.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] There is nothing called the 'moderate Taliban'
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 7:50 AM
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Columnists/M-J-Akbar-No-Moderate-Taliban/articleshow/4390292.cms
>
> The Times of India
>
> MJ Akbar
> There is nothing called the 'moderate Taliban'
> 12 Apr 2009, 0044 hrs IST
>
> If necessity is the mother of invention then politics is
> often the
> father. Barack Obama has invented a phrase that did not
> exist on
> January 20, the day he became president. Anxious to win a
> war through
> the treasury rather than the Pentagon, he has discovered
> something
> called the "moderate Taliban" in Afghanistan.