As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in response to the 911 attacks, and we may also use force consistent with our inherent right of national self-defense.
Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision weaponry is good in itself, but its ability to discriminate is improving and will continue to improve. Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.
Reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable. And diplomacy would be easy if we only had to talk to our friends. But that is not how one makes peace.
I don't think the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban will yield a positive result
Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.
Know what the Taliban leaders like to do for fun? Just sit around and get bombed.
It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U. S. marines are actually on a feminist mission.
The Taliban is resilient.
For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.
I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.
Being a conservative on campus is like bing a goat amongst the taliban. You are never safe.
In Afghanistan, U. S. troops are now holding an American man who has been fighting alongside the Taliban. His mother says he was born in Washington, D. C. and his father's a lawyer. Well, that explains it. . . . He surrendered to authorities and said he wants to go back to his old job - airline security guard.
The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
It's what the Taliban does in Afghanistan, it's what gets done in the Middle East, and it's clearly something that certain mainly conservative groups in the United States would like to do. They miss the good old days, when men were men and women were nothing.
I was assigned a Taliban "minder" who followed me everywhere. But he couldn't follow me into homes where there were women, so I took photos inside people's homes.
There are reports on the news tonight that members of the Taliban feel persecuted and fear their own safety. So now they know what it is like to feel like a woman in their country.
They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed.
Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.
Military surge in Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban.
We dont see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and its a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term.
