{"id":1202,"date":"2009-10-08T17:23:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T21:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2009-10-08T17:23:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T21:23:33","slug":"the-taliban-aren%e2%80%99t-al-qaida-you-didn%e2%80%99t-understand-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1202\/the-taliban-aren%e2%80%99t-al-qaida-you-didn%e2%80%99t-understand-that\/","title":{"rendered":"The Taliban Aren\u2019t al-Qaida; You Didn\u2019t Understand That?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, we got an Afghan Taliban press release<\/a> courtesy of the Associated Press.\u00a0 It assured us that all the Taliban want is \u201cindependence and establishment of an Islamic system\u201d and don\u2019t want to harm other countries or any other bad stuff if only all of us would simply go away and leave them alone to do with the indigenous people as they will.\u00a0 (Perhaps you are familiar with how the Taliban go about establishing an Islamic system.)<\/p>\n

Well, good to know and thanks for sharing, we thought.<\/p>\n

Then we got a UPI story<\/a>, which led with, “U.S. officials say al-Qaida is seen as a greater threat than the Afghan Taliban in the emerging war strategy formulations of President Barack Obama. … After the president met with top advisers Wednesday for three hours, officials said the new strategy may focus more on a campaign against al-Qaida in Pakistan than on the Taliban in Afghanistan.”<\/p>\n

And then, sure enough, we got another Associated Press story<\/a> that began, “President Obama is prepared to accept some Taliban involvement in Afganistan\u2019s political future and appears inclined to send only as many more U.S. troops as needed to keep al-Qaida at bay, a senior administration official said Thursday.”<\/p>\n

You do see what is happening here, with President Obama\u2019s “War of Necessity,” don\u2019t you?\u00a0 If not, don\u2019t worry, you soon will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, we got an Afghan Taliban press release courtesy of the Associated Press.\u00a0 It assured us that all the Taliban want is \u201cindependence and establishment of an Islamic system\u201d and don\u2019t want to harm other countries or any other bad stuff if only all of us would simply go away and leave them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[138,258,24,257],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-afghanistan","tag-al-qaida","tag-obama","tag-taliban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}