Put Taliban in Afghan gov't?
2006-10-03
Source: New York Daily News
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rss feedSenate Majority Leader Bill Frist said yesterday that the Afghan war against Taliban guerrillas can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Islamic militia and its supporters into the Afghan government.
The Tennessee Republican said he learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support to be defeated on the battlefield.
"You need to bring them into a more transparent type of government," Frist said during a brief visit to a U.S. and Romanian military base in the southern Taliban stronghold of Qalat. "And if that's accomplished, we'll be successful."
Afghanistan is suffering its heaviest insurgent attacks since a U.S.-led military force toppled the Taliban in late 2001 for harboring Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
On Friday, President Bush acknowledged there have been setbacks in Afghanistan but predicted eventual victory.
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