Informative article, thanks for linking it, Amy.

This is so stupid on so many levels, I wish I was making it up, but it looks like Obama & co are negotiating, yes, Negotiating, with the Taliban
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/06/18/karzai-afghanistan-us-negotiating-with-taliban/
I weep for the future of this country......

"I weep for the future of this country......"

The future where we negotiate with our enemies instead of killing them all, sorting their DNA, using that to find their relatives, killing them, determining what religion they are, killing all of them, finding out what country they're from, killing all of them, then killing everyone that might be sympathetic to the slaughtered "just in case"?

Ten bucks says you never served. Bloodthirsty flag-wavers rarely do.

I've met quite a few (black, Somalian)Muslims in my area named Abdi. I have to wonder if they know that their name is a variation of the Arab word for slave.
Overall, very interesting article. Not something that seems to have been considered by the, "we have to let them practice their religion the way they want to," crowd.

The future where we negotiate with our enemies instead of killing them all

That's the same outfit that told us to pound sand 10 years ago when we demanded Bin Laden and al Queda on a platter.

I would have been satisified - actually hoped for - that 1,000 years from now Afghani mothers would tell their unruly offspring that if they didn't knock it off and start behaving that The Americans would come and get them. And the unruly offspring towing the line after that.