"Peace for our time"
The Toronto Star's Thomas Walkom becomes a Neville brother:
So, forget the war on terror. Terror feeds on war. Paradoxically, the precondition for success in Afghanistan is peace. This is not a bromide but a fact.Churchill responded to Munich in the House of Commons:
However, peace is not easy. It requires political accommodation – not only with those of whom we approve but with those whose views we detest. This will be the hard part. The alternative is worse.
Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.At some point there will have to be talks with elements of those lumped under the name "Taliban" (which is no monolithic group now). But the idea that an overall, acceptable peace settlement can be reached with the top, fanatical Islamist leadership is nuts.
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 3:07 p.m.
5 Comments:
That said, it's not like we can discuss the situation there with, I dunno, the Jamaicans. In the end you have to negotiate with your enemy.
But I'm a big fan of, I dunno, killing a few thousand more of them to get their attention.
Nothing focuses the mind like a hanging in the morning. Or a TIC with Canadians.
BB, what's a TIC?
CC, in the end it's the losers who have to negotiate with their enemy.
Louise: "Troops in contact" with the enemy.
Mark
Ottawa
louise, so you figure we should kill everyone who is remotely Taliban? Because if you're answer is no, then we still have to negotiate with them. Because if we dictate terms that shut out (and piss off) segments of the population we're back on that train carriage in Compiègne.
bbs, I'm totally against hangings.
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