President Obama Signs Taliban Disarmament Act
posted at 11:47 am on May 28, 2010 by Laura Curtis
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On Monday, President Obama signed S. 1067, the “Taliban Disarmament and Afghanistan/Pakistan Recovery Act.” In his Signing Statement, the President said: “The legislation crystallizes the commitment of the United States to help bring an end to the brutality and destruction that have been a hallmark of the Taliban across several countries for two decades, and to pursue a future of greater security and hope for the people of the middle east.”
President Obama added,
The Taliban preys on civilians – killing, raping, and mutilating the people of the middle east; stealing and brutalizing their children; and displacing hundreds of thousands of people. Its leadership, indicted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, has no agenda and no purpose other than its own survival. It fills its ranks of fighters with the young boys and girls it abducts. By any measure, its actions are an affront to human dignity.
Okay, I totally made that up. It was really the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament Act that he signed. The Taliban, he’s looking to cut a deal with.
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Daggett on May 28, 2010 at 12:57 PM
well, the last bunch of fools gave the Taliban seven freakin years to re-group while their idiot in Kabul and his keystone kops stole everything we sent in, so go right ahead, Curtis, with your hilarity.
audiculous on May 28, 2010 at 7:56 PM
D’oh!
Ortzinator on May 28, 2010 at 9:05 PM
What’s your point, audilicious? I’m not allowed to be amused by Obama’s selective outrage?
Laura Curtis on May 29, 2010 at 8:37 AM
Here’s the thing, Brainiac. The “last bunch of fools” removed the Taliban from power as the government of Afghanistan.
This bunch of fools is doing exactly the things that Dear Leader excoriated the Bush administration for doing in the Af/Pak theater. Now their exit strategy is to make deals with the barbarians who allowed Al Qaeda to flourish while running what was probably the most repressive regime seen in the last half-century.
It is time to face the reality that Ojesus is unfit for command and unfit for the responsibilities he assumed in January, 2008. At some point, “it’s Bush’s fault” just doesn’t cut it any more. That point is now, if you ask the majority of people in this nation.
hillbillyjim on May 30, 2010 at 9:03 PM
Here’s another clue: There are no “moderate Taliban”, period.
That is another fairy tale made up of wishful thinking and willful ignorance.
hillbillyjim on May 30, 2010 at 9:06 PM