The Report is that Karzai met with the Haqqani Leader

The Report is that Karzai met with the Haqqani Leader Al Jezeera reported that Afghanistan President Karzai did in fact meet with the Commander of the Haqqani network. Now if anyone would ask me I would say that I think that he is on the right track. Common sense will tell you that there is no sense in trying to wipe out the Taliban because it just never will happen. The area is too big to try to police, there are too many of them, and they just have too much support. As a matter of fact a mindset that says lets kill off the Taliban is wrong. Our mission needs to be redefined in the minds of the American people. It has already been redefined by the Obama administration. we don’t need to see victory as killing everybody off and leaving a pile of dead bodies behind.

In my mind victory would be striking a crippling blow to al-Qaeda, capturing Osama bin Laden, and preventing them from striking here in America on a large scale ever again. To expect anything more than this is just not living in reality.

Reportedly President Karzai met with the Leader of the Haqqani Network, the head of the Pakistani Intelligence Service (ISI), and the head of the Pakastani Army. The goal is peace and hopefully between these four different factions it can be accomplished. The immediate goal seems to be to convince all of the Taliban branches which operate in the area to break off their alliances with al-Qaeda.

Karzai needs to realize that the Pakistanis have an agenda in this too and I’m sure that he does. They want to keep some sort of control over Afghan affairs. This was their basis for the alliance with the Haqqanis. If President Karzai doesn’t give away the farm he might come out smelling like a rose.