We are thinking of buying off Taliban fighters.....
"In advance of an international conference in London to discuss Afghanistan's future on Thursday, Japan, the United States and Britain are said to be leading the proposal.
The scheme would offer cash, jobs and other incentives to the Taliban and fighters in other armed groups.
"The sum could be as much as between $500m and $1bn over the next five years", Al Jazeera's James Bays, reporting from London, said.
He said the money would be used to persuade individual Taliban fighters that they are better off on the government's side rather than fighting on the side of the Taliban."
Read the whole article here. After the billions already spent trying to kill them all, now this. Why don't we try this in the first place? How can you be sure they won't use the $$ against us. Isn't that why we are in this mess in the first place because we funded Bin Laden?
Where is Osama anyway?
