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Signed into law a billion dollar program
to change the hearts and minds of Taliban |
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fighters through local projects and jobs.
The goal says the bills author is to get |
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pro Taliban fighters instead of fighting
us to join with us. By putting them on a |
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pay role to give those few dollars to
tens of thousands of lower level local |
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Taliban people who are not there because
of their religious fanaticism. Its |
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modeled after the sons of Iraq program. |
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Where coalition forces and the Iraqi
government hired 100.000 Iraqis. To |
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forsake the insurgency there and join
with the forces of stability. |
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But this scholar an experienced
Afghanistan election observer says |
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Afghanistan is a different proposition.
In Iraq Karin von Hippel says Sunni |
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insurgents were motivated by their
rejection of Al Qaida brutality. It is |
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actually very different in Afghanistan.
The Taliban are inspired by an extreme |
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form of Islam. They interpret it in a
very violent way. That was not |
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necessarily the case in Iraq. |
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President Obama signed the 680 billion
dollar defense measure with this promise. |
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I will always do whatever it takes to
keep the American people safe. But the |
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Americans more and more question the
Presidents Afghanistan strategy. Even as |
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Mr. Obama ponders the domestic politics
and military impact of expanding the US |
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troop presence there. And as his
administration is challenged about a New |
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York Times report alleging that the
brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai |
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has been on the CIAs pay role for years.
Despite suspicions that he is a major |
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opium dealer. |
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For the record the CIA declined comment.
And Ahmad Karzai has repeatedly denied |
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the charge.As long as Taliban fighters
continue to score military successes in |
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Afghanistan. Says CSIS Scholar Karin Van
Hippel it will be a tough sell to stand |
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them up to join the other side. And that
is where US troops may have to come into |
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play. |