smitty Posted January 30, 2015 Report Posted January 30, 2015 Can some of our liberal friends here explain this?! http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/01/white-house-taliban-not-a-terrorist-group Quote
BS Wildcats Posted January 30, 2015 Report Posted January 30, 2015 Our POTUS trying not to offend his brotherhood. Quote
EnlightenedMessiah Posted January 30, 2015 Report Posted January 30, 2015 Hate how PC this country has become. Blacks, women, Muslims, Etc have entered into a competition on who can be the most offended and victimized Quote
Chester86 Posted January 30, 2015 Report Posted January 30, 2015 In my best Mike Tyson voice, "This is just ludicrous!". Not a terrorist group my ___!!!!! Ty Cobb 1 Quote
SKINS Posted January 30, 2015 Report Posted January 30, 2015 I'll take this one. By definition the Taliban is not a Terrorist group. The are more of a terrorist government. The don't actually carry out attacks, the fund groups that do. Very bad people who need to be taken out, but not technically a terrorist group. http://m.fbi.gov/#http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/terrorism/terrorism-definition Quote
SKINS Posted January 30, 2015 Report Posted January 30, 2015 By the way, this has been coming for some time now, the Intelligence Community stopped calling the Taliban a terrorist group a while back. This way we can target them more as a crime organization which is more effective. Quote
77 Posted January 31, 2015 Report Posted January 31, 2015 Its nonsense lets just call them what they are muslim terrorist! Didn't they just kill about 200 kids? Quote
SKINS Posted January 31, 2015 Report Posted January 31, 2015 Its nonsense lets just call them what they are muslim terrorist! Didn't they just kill about 200 kids? We can call them what ever, but to target them in certain ways we have to give them certain labels. They evovled back in 2008 or so, took a more prominent role in politics, stopped their suicide bombings. Now they operate more like a rebel force. Taking them off the list also allows us to talk to them, something China has already been doing. Sometimes the game changes and we have to adapt the playbook. Mr. Buddy Garrity 1 Quote
smitty Posted January 31, 2015 Author Report Posted January 31, 2015 We can call them what ever, but to target them in certain ways we have to give them certain labels. They evovled back in 2008 or so, took a more prominent role in politics, stopped their suicide bombings. Now they operate more like a rebel force. Taking them off the list also allows us to talk to them, something China has already been doing. Sometimes the game changes and we have to adapt the playbook. "Now they operate more like a rebel force." Are you saying they are nothing more than "freedom fighters?" Quote
SKINS Posted January 31, 2015 Report Posted January 31, 2015 "Now they operate more like a rebel force." Are you saying they are nothing more than "freedom fighters?" For lack of a better term, yes. They don't agree with the Afghanistan government, and have been fighting with them. Now they are in peace talks. Quote
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