Obama's Special Envoy To Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, Decides That the United Nations Should Determine What Taliban Are On Most Dangerous List

You have got to be bloody kidding me.

At this story from KUNA News, it is described that a list of sanctioned Taliban members in Afghanistan will now be in the hands of the United Nations to decide if their names get taken off. In other words, radical muslims in the U.N. and their appeasing partners in that corrupt body will now have the power to remove dangerous Taliban members from the sanction list. As you will see below, the Bush administration would not allow this, Obama is. Simple as that. One President knew what an enemy was, the other doesn't (or doesn't give a shit).

From the article:

Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke said on Tuesday that the United States will help to review the United Nations sanctions list on Taliban members to advance the reconciliation process in Afghanistan."President Karzai for a long time has felt this list should be changed dramatically ... the United States position under the previous administration was to oppose any change in that list. We re-examined this policy starting late last year," said Holbrooke in a press briefing.

" Holbrooke affirmed that "this is not a one-time-only event, it is an ongoing process, and the U.S. is not in charge of it. The U.N. is. But we are working on it, along with them." "Our position on reconciliation should be equally clear. We support Afghan-led reconciliation," he added.

So, let's cut to the chase here. We have families here in America with their sons and daughters and husbands and wives and fathers and mothers serving in the military in Afghanistan. Each day, those brave troops of ours face a relentless enemy that is planting IED's to try and kill our troops...or face an enemy that is setting up an ambush outside of a poppy field....and now, while those troops of ours are saddled with mind numbing restrictive ROE we are going to add to the mix a bunch of Taliban that are removed from a sanction list and are basically taken off of our radar. As if those families here didn't have enough to worry about each night...we put their safety in the hands of liberal idiots like Richard Holbrooke who wouldn't know an enemy combatant if one stuck a knife in his ribs.

Oh, almost forgot, that photo you see above is an old one of Holbrooke -it shows him hanging out with radical islamic terrorists from the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army). Birds of a feather, I tell ya.

US open to review Taliban delisting process -- Holbrooke


WASHINGTON, July 13 (KUNA) -- Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke said on Tuesday that the United States will help to review the United Nations sanctions list on Taliban members to advance the reconciliation process in Afghanistan.
"President Karzai for a long time has felt this list should be changed dramatically ... the United States position under the previous administration was to oppose any change in that list. We re-examined this policy starting late last year," said Holbrooke in a press briefing. Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced this week he planned to ask the United Nations to remove up to 50 former Taliban leaders from a terrorism blacklist.
The Security Council Resolution 1267 was passed in 1999 and was designed because of Taliban noncompliance with certain United Nations resolutions. Holbrooke made clear that "to get a name delisted takes Security Council approval, which means the five permanent members must do this, must agree" and mentioned that he visited New York last week to talk to the Austrian ambassador to the U.N., who is in charge of this process for the U.N. Security Council, and to various other U.N. officials and to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
"President Karzai would like to have names dropped from the list. We agree to do that on a case-by-case process. We will not support a blanket ending of this list," he added while stating that "there are people on it who are dangerous threats to the United States and our allies, and there are people on it who are actors in movements which threaten to kill members of the coalition.
" Holbrooke affirmed that "this is not a one-time-only event, it is an ongoing process, and the U.S. is not in charge of it. The U.N. is. But we are working on it, along with them." "Our position on reconciliation should be equally clear. We support Afghan-led reconciliation," he added.
Holbrooke affirmed that the Kabul conference on July 20 "is not going to end the war in Afghanistan." The Afghan government is expected to present a plan to improve development, governance and security during a conference co-chaired by the United Nations. While it is not a pledging conference, donor countries are expected to align their assistance with the proposals put forward in the meeting.
Assistant Secretary of State for public diplomacy Philip Crowley told reporters that a "major element" of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton upcoming trip is to participate in the Kabul conference next week.
Holbrooke, who just came back from a trip to South East Asia, will leave again tomorrow for Germany, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India on addition to London on his way back to Washington. In Germany, he will meet with the coordinator for the international special representatives for Afghanistan and Pakistan group Michael Steiner. Holbrooke noted the participation of seven Muslim countries from the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in the Kabul conference highlights "the importance of the fact that so many Muslim countries are participating in this effort." "This gives the direct lie to the "clash of civilizations" theory which the Taliban and al Qaeda put out so continually," he added.
Holbrooke said the US administration is continuing discussions with Islamabad on is relation with Kabul adding that this dialogue between the two neighboring countries "is beginning to show signs of some degree of building some degree of mutual confidence." "Nothing could be more important to the resolution of the war in Afghanistan than a common understanding between Afghanistan and Pakistan on what their strategic purpose is," he added. Holbrooke also stressed the importance of the meeting between the Indian and Pakistani foreign minister in Islamabad this week saying that this help "reduces tensions and increases confidence and understanding between Pakistan and India is something we would encourage and support. But we are not directly involved in those talks."